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Robin Williams

"Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money."

Impressive Low Tides This Week on Oregon Coast

Impressive Low Tides This Week on Oregon Coast: "When it comes to tides, it's good to have friends in low places. The central Oregon coast and the north Oregon coast are about to experience some really low tides this week, and then again in a month."

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Scientists: Watermelon may work like Viagra :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Health News

Scientists: Watermelon may work like Viagra :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Health News: "Ladies, if your husband or boyfriend suggests a watermelon might be just the thing to spice up your sex life, don't be alarmed.

Scientists in Texas -- one of the nation's top producers of seedless watermelons -- say the juicy red fruit contains an ingredient that can spur the production of a compound that helps relax the body's blood vessels, similar to what happens when a man takes Viagra."

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Carl Reiner

"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."

Gallery of Sawn-In-Half Cameras | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

Gallery of Sawn-In-Half Cameras | Gadget Lab from Wired.com: "an amazing collection of historical German camera gear. The exhibit is full of retro gadgets, as you'll see below, but the most interesting to me were the bisected lenses and cameras, the insides of which show the precision of a CAD drawing."

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Earth's Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says

Earth's Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says: "Rapid changes in the churning movement of Earth's liquid outer core are weakening the magnetic field in some regions of the planet's surface, a new study says.

'What is so surprising is that rapid, almost sudden, changes take place in the Earth's magnetic field,' said study co-author Nils Olsen, a geophysicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen."

Global Update - Environmental Health - A How-to Book for Everything From Water Filters to Fly Traps - NYTimes.com

Global Update - Environmental Health - A How-to Book for Everything From Water Filters to Fly Traps - NYTimes.com: "The 600-page book is written in simple English and has hundreds of drawings showing, for example, how to disinfect water with boiling, bleach, sunlight or lime juice and how to make filters from sand, clay and charcoal. It has numerous designs for stoves that use less fuel; it has schematic drawings of simple fly and roach traps and bicycle-powered grinders and blenders. It devotes almost 40 pages just to toilets."

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An elderly couple was having dinner one evening when the husband reached across the table, took his wife's hand in his and said, "Martha, soon we will be married 50 years, and there's something I have to know. In all of these 50 years have you ever been unfaithful to me?"

Martha replied, "Well Henry, I have to be honest with you. Yes, I've been unfaithful to you three times during these 50 years, but always for a good reason."

Henry was stunned by his wife's confession, but said, "I never suspected. Can you tell me what you mean by 'good reasons?'"

"Let's see," Martha said. "The first time was shortly after we were married, and we were about to lose our little house because we couldn't pay the mortgage. Do you remember that one evening I went to see the banker and the next day he notified you that the loan would be extended?"

Henry recalled the visit to the banker and said, "I can forgive you for that. You saved our home, but what about the second time?"

Martha asked, "And do you remember when you were so sick, but we didn't have the money to pay for the heart surgery you needed? Well, I went to see your doctor one night and, if you recall, he did the surgery at no charge."

"I recall that," said Henry "And you did it to save my life, so I of
course I can forgive you for that. Now tell me about the third time."

"Alright," Martha said, a little more hesitant. "So do you remember when you ran for president of the yacht club, and you needed 73 more votes...?"

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Lewis Thomas

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers."

Top 5 Myths About the Fourth of July!

Top 5 Myths About the Fourth of July!: "Hanging in the grand Rotunda of the Capitol of the United States is a vast canvas painting by John Trumbull depicting the signing of the Declaration. Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams wrote, years afterward, that the signing ceremony took place on July 4. When someone challenged Jefferson's memory in the early 1800's Jefferson insisted he was right. The truth? As David McCullough remarks in his new biography of Adams, 'No such scene, with all the delegates present, ever occurred at Philadelphia.'"

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Fire in the sky: Tunguska at 100

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Fire in the sky: Tunguska at 100: "The plume of hot dust trailing the fireball gave rise to descriptions of a 'pillar of fire', which was quickly replaced by a giant cloud of black smoke rising over the horizon.

'The sky split in two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest. The split in the sky grew larger, and the entire northern side was covered with fire,' one local remembered.

'At that moment I became so hot that I couldn't bear it, as if my shirt was on fire… I wanted to tear off my shirt and throw it down, but then the sky slammed shut. A strong thump sounded, and I was thrown a few yards.'"

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The Associated Press: Medicare fees to doctors to fall starting Tuesday

The Associated Press: Medicare fees to doctors to fall starting Tuesday: "One unpleasant task lawmakers will have over the July 4 recess is explaining to seniors why they didn't stop a 10 percent fee cut, going into effect Tuesday, for doctors who treat Medicare patients.

Physicians have been running ads hinting that patients may find doctors less willing to treat them.

In a particularly vitriolic exchange, Democrats and Republicans blamed each other for what Dr. Nancy H. Nielsen, president of the American Medical Association, said has put the country 'at the brink of a Medicare meltdown.'"

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Thinking down the road to this Fall and Winter.... We are thinking of organizing a small cadre of tech savy persons to visit you and your computer. They will set up Firefox on your computer, Make your computer display large print adjusted to your taste (throw those reading glasses away ). Big icons for older eyes. Have your desktop show large icons. Generally, make your computer more senior friendly... I will teach them how... You will make appointments for them to visit your computer... I will act as help for the new teachers... Help them with problems they encounter..

There is always someone who knows a bit more... or understands computers but we are looking for a few folks that would have fun doing this for people.. I will teach... you learn and commit to helping folks in our community when and if you can. Everyone moves forward... Time marches on and this teacher's corp learns how to help the blind, the hard of hearing , helps people set up their own customized newspaper, teaches how to use picture albums and make slide shows...as Martha would say, "It's a good thing".

There is already one on one classes for computers every Tuesday at the clubhouse computer lab. People come with very specific things they want to learn and we help them. They start at 9am and run to 1pm. They are currently closed but as those long winter nights close in on us... We will take more students.

Since this is a time away in the future we are just posting a survey to see the interest level in the park...You will see the survey in the right column.. Find this appealing? Mark it up...

Op-Ed Contributor - How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Contributor - How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com: "This phenomenon, known as source amnesia, can also lead people to forget whether a statement is true. Even when a lie is presented with a disclaimer, people often later remember it as true."

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NASA - NanoSail-D

NASA - NanoSail-D: "'Hold your hands out to the sun. What do you feel? Heat, of course. But there's pressure as well – though you've never noticed it, because it's so tiny. Over the area of your hands, it only comes to about a millionth of an ounce. But out in space, even a pressure as small as that can be important – for it's acting all the time, hour after hour, day after day. Unlike rocket fuel, it's free and unlimited. If we want to, we can use it; we can build sails to catch the radiation blowing from the sun.'1"

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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

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