no, it's not a big thing here.
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another day another earthquake...no not in our area.
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Everyone here is upset that Pacquiao lost on Sunday, but was fraud involved?
some comments suggest he won previous fights by similar close calls, and now suddenly rumors of using sports enhancing drugs.
I don't know enough to judge. Presumably this is all talk, and there will be a lucrative rematch next fall.
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Survival story of the day: 2 US students hiking in New Zealand found their way home blocked by flooding and then snow...but survived 9 days by rationing their food.
It has been said the major killer of those lost in the wild is panic; in this case, they made the right decisions.
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If you denerve kidneys, will your blood pressure come down?
interesting if true...probably has to do with the sympathetic nervous system and the renin angiotensin system
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no, I don't understand it (the renin angiotensin system was a new concept when I attended medical school). But it seems to say if you have an overactive Sympathetic nervous system, the angiotensin blockers won't work as well...which is why you can't get the pressure low enough in some folks.
but the real question is if it will work in ordinary folks with high blood pressure, not just the drug resistant group.
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Why Muslims revolt (and sometimes are the victims of anti Muslim hatred).
Myamar (Burma) vs the Rohingya.
more HERE.
This is a foreign ethnic group that migrated to Buma a couple generations ago, but never were accepted. So it's interethnic violence rather than religious per se, and they have been persecuted in recent years.
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MotherJones says: the devestation of the beaches from the BP oil spill is still there.
As I've reported before (here, here, and here), we're just now beginning to get a sense of the deadly aftereffects of BP's disaster on dolphins, fish, seabirds, and other wildlife of the Gulf and beyond. Oh, and it's not that great for human life either.------------------------------------------------------------------
(link to investigation paper...)
Dustbury tells us about General Tso and who invented his chicken dish
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And the greatest invention of the week: A self making bed...
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