An Italian doctor may have found a very simple cure to Multiple Sclerosis by unblocking restricted bloodflow out of the brain. Two years after the surgery, 73% of the patients [have] no symptoms. Dr. Zamboni’s thinking could turn the current understanding of MS on its head, and offer many sufferers a complete cure.
Quite possibly the THE best thread I’ve ever seen dealing with a client who has zero money and thinks he can create facebook with your help and experience for free…
To read the entire thread (it’s well worth it) check it out here: http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html
Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California found that being too clean could impair the skin’s ability to heal. From the article:
Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are “good bacteria” when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation.
I will let my kids play in the sand at the park, eat the dirt in the backyard garden and maybe even blow a bubble or two with that gum up off the sidewalk….WHY? Because if I don’t a peanut might kill them one day….A FRICKEN PEANUT…. This study proves you should let your kids be kids and get dirty…It’ll help their immune systems fight off all that nasty crap like H1N1 they’ll encounter later in their life.
I received this in an email fwd this morning and it was so good – instead of forwarding – here it is:
Great Answers:
In France, at a fairly large conference, Prime Minister Steven Harper was asked by a French cabinet minister if Canadian involvement in Afghanistan was just an example of “empire building”.
Mr Harper answered by saying, ‘Over the years, Canada has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.’
You could have heard a pin drop.
A Canadian Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the Canadian, US, English, Australian and French Navies.
At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French Admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, North Americans generally learn only English. He then asked, ‘Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?’
Without hesitating, the Canadian Admiral replied ‘Maybe it’s because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn’t have to speak German.’
You could have heard a pin drop.
When Robert Whiting, an elderly Canadian gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry-on at French Customs.
‘You have been to France before, monsieur?’ the customs officer asked sarcastically.
Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.
The official replied, ‘Then you should know enough to have your passport ready.’
The Canadian said, ‘The last time I was here, I didn’t have to show it.’
‘Impossible, Monseur. Canadians always have to show passports on arrival in France!’
The Canadian senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained, ‘Well, when I came ashore on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn’t find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to.’
You could have heard a pin drop.
Canadians are Cool.
In response to Rupert Murdoch (CEO of Fox News) announcing that he’s considering removing all of NewsCorp’s news from Google and put it all up on Microsoft’s Bing… Seth Godin has summed it up pretty much right on the money:
You don’t charge the search engines to send people to articles on your site, you pay them.
If you can’t make money from attention, you should do something else for a living. Charging money for attention gets you neither money nor attention.
Essentially what this means is that Microsoft would pay Murdoch for exclusive rights to list his newsfeed content on the Bing search engine. What he hasn’t thought about is what is in the best interests of the consumer… I use google reader to aggregate all the news feeds I subscribe to. If this were to go forward, I’d have to use Bing to view any news that has been paid to be listed exclusively on Microsoft’s service…. No sir, I don’t like it – I don’t like it one bit.
There’s a great blog post over at beblunt.com about whether or not your company has a soul.
It’s easy to know a soulful company when you walk into one. I’m not talking about post-industrial chic or foosball tables or pets running freely through the office. I’m talking about the collective demeanor of the people you pass in the halls. There’s an easy yet authentic confidence that starts at the top, an unarticulated yet palpable sense of freedom and possibility. You wonder at how they can be so blunt, so revealing in the way they blog and tweet and communicate to the outside world. They don’t keep anything under wraps. Why should they? They have nothing to hide. The sky is literally the limit, and you walk out of their offices dreaming of ways through which you can latch onto a part of their inexorable upward momentum.
I left Critical Mass for a company that I believed had soul. Turned out – like so many others since me – I fell for the bait and created a nice black hole in my career path. Having returned to Critical Mass I realized that CM has more soul than any other agency claiming to have it. I love my job, my work and my portfolio is better as a result of it.
