Seriously, everytime I see Chervil, I think of Gerbil...and that just goes to show you how my brain has turned to mush since children have invaded, err, I mean, lovingly joined, my life...For you more advanced (?!?) and serious gardeners (???!!!???), you probably think of fine herbes, the standard combination of chervil, parsley, chives and tarragon often used in French cooking. Chervil is an abso
Somehow when I left crime fighting, I thought my days of witnessing death and destruction would be over. It would be all Martha blue/green and flowers in vases. But no. Because for some reason, I'm a tragedy magnet or something....
Many people have an irrational fear of dentists that is difficult to explain. I understand; when you walk into a dentist’s office, you just get a sinking feeling in your stomach. You feel threatened, but you see no reason to feel this way, so you try to push it out of your mind. It doesn’t [...]
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) refers to a mixture of isomers of linoleic acid which is found naturally in animal products of ruminant (any of the hoofed animals) sources including meat and diary products. Though CLA is a trans fat, many researchers claim that unlike other trans fatty acids, it is not actually harmful. Further, recent interest in CLA stems from several well-document properties which have been researched in rodents including: antiobesity, antiatherogenic, antidiabetic, and anticarcinogenic properties. If you’re a rodent with diabetes, clogged arteries, cancer, or obesity, then CLA supplementation seems like a pretty good idea. However, though CLA exhibits these properties in rodent models, what effect does it actually have on humans?Of the various purported reasons for people consuming supplements containing CLA isomers, perhaps the most common reason is for weight loss. In mice, CLA supplementation has resulted in dramatic decreases in adipose mass, with as much as 5
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) refers to a mixture of isomers of linoleic acid which is found naturally in animal products of ruminant (any of the hoofed animals) sources including meat and diary products. Though CLA is a trans fat, many researchers claim that unlike other trans fatty acids, it is not actually harmful. Further, recent interest in CLA stems from several well-document properties which have been researched in rodents including: antiobesity, antiatherogenic, antidiabetic, and anticarcinogenic properties. If you’re a rodent with diabetes, clogged arteries, cancer, or obesity, then CLA supplementation seems like a pretty good idea. However, though CLA exhibits these properties in rodent models, what effect does it actually have on humans?Of the various purported reasons for people consuming supplements containing CLA isomers, perhaps the most common reason is for weight loss. In mice, CLA supplementation has resulted in dramatic decreases in adipose mass, with as much as 5
By: Craig Elliott Mickey Mouse and his family may be charming and enduring figures for children but when the real things become uninvited guests in your residence, it's time to take serious steps to oust them. Not only are mice annoying when you hear them crawling around inside the walls or chewing their way into your cereal boxes and bags of sugar, they also spread serious illnesses. And the droppings they deposit everywhere they've visited are extremely unsavory souvenirs.Rodents like mice and their larger cousins the rats, may carry dangerous diseases including plague, typhus, HPS, lymphocytic choriomeningitis and leptospirosis. This is certainly reason enough to keep them from invading your personal living space. There are numerous steps you can take to turn off the 'Welcome' sign and replace it with 'No Vacancy.'Rodents come in because they are looking for food and a nice warm place to sleep away from the nasty weather outside. They also find a home an attractive place to ra
ScienceDaily (2007-10-19) — By injecting embryonic stem cells from a wood mouse into the early embryo of a house mouse, scientists have produced normal healthy animals made up of a mixture of cells from each of the two distantly related species. This is the first time that stem cells from one mammalian species have been shown to contribute extensively to development when introduced into the embryo of another, very different species. Although both are rodents, the wood mouse and the house mouse have evolved separately for up to 20 million years. Their genes differ by as much as 18 percent, about 12 times the difference between human and chimpanzee.
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"What is that?" You ask? Don't tell me your son doesn't dissect owl pellets and reconstruct mice skeletons too?But that's exactly what he gave me. It was a school science project where the children were given little fur balls that owls cough up after a meal, the ones that contain all the undigestable parts of the meal, only they're not called fur balls but owl pellets. Spencer told me with pride how he got an A on the assignment because his bones were in the correct order and that he'd cleaned them so well. Gulp."You cleaned the bones yourself?""Yup," he said with a smile.I looked at his rather dirty hands with new-found horror."Oh." Gulp. "Thanks, uh, it's lovely Spencer. I'll put it on the fridge."It ought to help me diet. I think I've lost my appetite.Technorati tags: Wordless Wednesday, biology, Alaska, photographs
Well, the play is over and the boys didn't look too bad. From far away, the costumes almost looked normal. They did pretty good, too, considering that Nicholas was trying hard to stay away and Devon didn't sing 99% of the songs and spent the good part of one seeing how far his lip can pull out like taffy.
One song was about the Three Musketeers and I'll have to download a clip of the video
Mothers of Bloggityville, I implore you for some input on an important, four-legged subject:
My boys want hamsters, or gerbils, or mice, or (*gulp*) rats for Christmas. My pet experience is limited to dogs and hermit crabs, so I need some help making this decision from any of you with experience with these sorts of pets.
Which variety stinks the least? Which variety is the least amount of work? Which variety is least inclined to escape and give birth to a dozen rodent babies in my favorite pair of shoes?
Or are they all so icky that we should avoid this altogether?
Bis fans, awake from your slumber because Bearsuit are about to sweep you off your lightly tinselled feet. Blasting at the face of MOR Bearsuit have been contributing fresh pieces of fantastic plastic out of Norwich since 2001 but it seems that it'll be a song that takes the name of a famous Hollywood director in vain to shoot them to semi-fame. "Steven F***ing Spielberg' is pretty gorgeous with
