Can't blog now, writing essays...
I am intending to include the words milieu, and hegemony, in every essay I write this year. From this point on. Just because I like them.
Got any more words to throw into the pile?
I am intending to include the words milieu, and hegemony, in every essay I write this year. From this point on. Just because I like them.
Got any more words to throw into the pile?
Regular consumption of caffeine over the long-term has been linked to lower incidences of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease in humans and lesser memory dysfunction and neurodegeration in animals, write neuroscientists Alexandre de Mendonça of the University of Lisbon and Rodrigo A. Cunha of the University of Coimbra, both in Portugal, in this month’s issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Research.
The beneficial effects only appeared when caffeine was consumed in moderate amounts (the equivalent of up to 4 cups of coffee a day for humans) regularly over a long period of time, Cunha told Livescience.
Rather than improve memory, “caffeine prevents any deterioration of memory caused by insults you might be prone to,” Cunha said.
It’s not talking about things someone may have said about your mum there — but rather things that effect your brain.
Read about it here, or order some coffee from the St. Eutychus Roastery here.
The best bit is that the guy doesn’t look at the explosions (which don’t come until right at the end). He’s so cool.

“The ball uses inductive coil technology–similar to flashlights that power up when shaken. Each 15 minutes of play with the ball generates enough power to light up an LED lamp for 3 hours, so a soccer game could easily provide light for a day.”



Via Walyou.
Anyway, Hitchens’ (the younger) new book is reviewed in a piece from the Centre of Public Christianity, published in the Sydney Morning Herald. Here’s what Peter Hitchens has to say about the dangers of the rise of atheism.
“His experiences living and reporting from Russia and eastern Europe profoundly shaped his view of the world. Having lived in Moscow at the close of the Soviet era, and having witnessed other atheistic regimes in full flight, he refuses to accept his brother’s evasion of what he sees as an organic link between atheism and the most notorious modernist experiments of the 20th century.
It is this experience that appears to shape his concerns for society. He believes Christianity is under attack today because it remains the most coherent and potent obstacle to frightening and ruthless idealism: “The concepts of sin, of conscience, of eternal life, and of divine justice under an unalterable law are the ultimate defence against the utopian’s belief that ends justify means and that morality is relative. These concepts are safeguards against the worship of human power.”
This has been around for a while.
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