The Ister, so named for the Roman term for the Danube river and a stately bastion of Central European train travel, has been passing this way every day since inheriting the trans-continental baton from the starily-named, but actually pretty workaday, Orient Express. While the long-distance ...
Weirdest search term of the day: slapping your sister in d dream correcting her and u were very angry with her Weirdest search term in 2017: would i like to eat my own poo (why does this lead here? Now it does again- NO, YOU WOULD PROBABLY NOT LIKE IT) Share this: Twitter Tumblr...
In mid-January, I didn’t fall into New Jersey’s first phase categories: Healthcare Personnel, Long-Term Care Residents, First Responders and Individuals at High Risk— which includes 64 and older. And smokers! I doubt that the half a cigarette I smoked when I was 11 at Camp Se-Sa-Ma...
Who would have thought that the Edinburgh Festival Fringe would become the living embodiment of what Orwell forecast many decades ago: “The abiding purpose of every nationalist [showcase] is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he...
The past couple weeks I done a few things that aren’t really the “spark joy” kinds of activities but that I know are going to benefit me long term. Last week I got a root canal on a damaged front tooth that has been discolored for many years. They did internal bleaching and now...
term “yogini” then, I definitely would have worked it into casual conversation with new people I met at parties.) But then of course I took a month off, ran a lot so that my hips tightened up like nobody’s business, and threw myself into a Bikram hot room for thirty days in a...
I try to at least post on this anniversary date, as a tribute to someone who breathed new life into me. I haven’t always made my mark, but I have always tried. Each year that passes is a not-too-gentle reminder that time is precious, and we can’t keep saving up for tomorrow....
A better term might be identity change form, since it’s full of questions about gender, profession, identifying item(s), and more. All of this data then becomes the Government’s official definition of you, and people you meet will be able to intuit that it’s accurate. (For those ...
A 2015 study from the Free University of Berlin found thathoneybees can store information within their long-term memory while they sleep, which is similar to what humans do while they dream. The circadian rhythm of bees is like humans, averaging about five to eight hours, with similar day-...
Immigration advocates, on the other hand, seemed to be of one mind on the path forward in their fight for comprehensive immigration reform: the 2012 elections provided an opening for bipartisan action and if it didn’t happen early in President Obama’s second term, momentum would be lost. ...