Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
As we fall asleep, the brain begins clearing out waste.
It operates like a late-night laundry service, with all the water valves opened and washing machines running at full capacity to remove dirt from piles of clothes, flushing the wastewater into the drain.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/your-brain-flushes-out-waste-every-night-heres-how-help-it-clean
There’s nothing more horrible than discovering your dog or cat is missing, and once a pet is lost, it’s hard to know whether they’ll ever return home. While pet owners can post flyers and go searching for them, it’s impossible to know where your fur babies have run off to.
Most of us have seen films about incredible journeys that beloved pets take, overcoming all odds to return to their homes and their families. Miraculously, it’s happened in real life, too. Many real pets have undertaken amazing journeys to find their owners, some of them traveling for years to get home.
https://www.ranker.com/list/stories-of-pets-returning-home/anabel-conner
A quantum state of light has been successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber optic cable amid a torrent of internet traffic – a feat of engineering once considered impossible.
Are you aware of the Neo-nicotinoid pesticides/insecticides used in Australia that are killing bees, products such as Confidor have active ingredients that stay active for a long time. It seems that retail nurseries use these regularly. I checked with the National Botanical Gardens in Canberra and they don’t use these, in fact use hardly any chemicals.
I suspect that most plants sold in retail outlets especially any of the large ones would sell plants with this poison.
It could be good to alert people on your email list so that we are not inadvertently buying plants for our gardens that are harming bees.
I’m canvassing my local retailers to find out what they use and if they are aware of the devastating effect of these products.
This is a list of the names of chemicals in this category:
Acetamiprid
Clothianidin
Dinotefuran
Imidacloprid
Nitenpyram
Thiocloprid
Thiamethoxam
Here are some websites I referred to:
http://www.xerces.org/neonicotinoids-and-bees/
http://citybugs.tamu.edu/factsheets/ipm/what-is-a-neonicotinoid/
http://www.planthealthaustralia.com.au/about-us/events/neonicotinoids-and-other-insecticides/
Although these words are now widely attributed to Cicero, in fact they originated in the 20th century, with novelist Taylor Caldwell’s 1965 book A Pillar of Iron. Even though that work often drew directly from the recorded speeches and letters of Cicero for its dialogue, it was nonetheless a work of fiction, and the warning from Cicero about “treason from within” was an invention of Caldwell’s and not a reproduction of Cicero’s own words. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cicero-treason-quote/
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not as a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Gold is the only metal that doesn’t rust, even if it’s buried in the ground for thousands of years.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
The song, Auld Lang Sine, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn’t smoke unless it’s heated above 450F.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
In ancient Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
A comet’s tail always points away from the sun.
The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
Due to earth’s gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.
Mickey Mouse is known as “Topolino” in Italy .
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
1. Go to a second-hand store and buy a pair of men’s used size 14-16 work boots.
2. Place them on your front porch, along with a copy of ‘Guns & Ammo’ Magazine.
3. Put a few giant dog dishes next to the boots and magazines.
4. Leave a note on your door that reads:
Hey Blue,
We’ve gone for more ammo and beer. Be back in an hour. Don’t
mess with the pit bulls; they attacked the mailman this morning
and messed him up real bad. I don’t think Killer took part, but it
was hard to tell from all the blood.
Anyway, I locked all four of ’em in the house.
Better wait outside. Be right back.
Cheers,
Wacka
