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• Commented on Leopard seal teaches photographer how to catch penguins
  "Endurance", the book about the failed Shackleton expedition, had a hair-raising description of a man being pursued by a leopard shark up on the ice. Amazing to see this kind of protective behavior in one seriously scary predator....
• Commented on Best exercise for healthy bones
  And here I thought Dance Dance Revolution was just good cardio exercise......
• Commented on Council bans parents from play areas
  The mayor's response on her blog is interesting. She just can't understand why the parents are so upset. And she says that the program is intended so that parents can drop off their children and then leave. http://dorothythornhill.mycouncillor.org.uk/categories/Council%20news/ This is...
• Commented on Two Good Reasons To Always Read the Methods Section of a Scientific Paper
  @zikman, they do include the actual recipe, including credit for the matzo balls (back of the Manaschewitz box). Sweet potatoes in chicken soup? Never seen that before. I prefer adding a bunch of dill....
• Commented on Report: Woman paralyzed by E. coli-tainted hamburger
  @xeni, while it's possible to eat more healthfully on a budget by buying bulk grains and beans and fresh fruits and veggies, it's hard to do if local stores don't sell those ingredients. Many poor neighborhoods are so-called "food deserts"...
• Commented on Shel Silverstein's UNCLE SHELBY, not exactly a kids' book
  I've loved this book for decades. G is for Gigalo, with a picture of a clarinet and instructions to the kid to go ask mom for money to buy a gigalo. D is for Daddy, with a drawing of a...
• Commented on HOWTO Present a poster session at a science meeting
  This was EXCELLENT. Lots of great suggestions....
• Commented on In praise of Kitchen Aid's customer service -- UPDATED
  I had the same superlative experience with KitchenAid CS in the US. The blade on my couple months old KA food processor somehow got frozen onto the central hub. KA had a brand spanking new food processor on my doorstep...
• Commented on Some Kindle books have secret caps on the number of times you can download them
  @bookguy, the situation hasn't really been "resolved". All that we know is that Amazon has a consistent party line on not really knowing to how many devices you can download a Kindle book. It might be 5 or 6, but...
• Commented on City in Montana requires job applicants to hand over all social network logins and passwords for background checks
  They also ask for names and passwords for any BUSINESS websites. I'm trying to imagine someone who runs a web-based business giving up their passwords. Or how about handing over your passwords for ebay and amazon? I've been unable to...
• Commented on Infographic: all US one-time expenditures vs the bailout
  Scariest thing by far is that I have absolutely no idea what half the stuff on the bailout side actually IS. Anything that ends in "Facility" is a total black box to me....
• Commented on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: adding much-needed zombies to the Austen classic
  My coworkers and I, P&P fans all, were just doubled over with laughter reading from these chapters. I think I'm going to be buying multiple copies as gifts. Especially for my 10th grade daughter's wonderful but rather intellectually stuffy english...
• Commented on Free Range Kids book: introduction online free
  @Blueworld, bingo the issue of relative risks. My eldest kid started walking home alone from the school bus stop at 10 years old. It's about a mile walk along a well-travelled street in a generally safe suburbian neighhborhood, a route...
• Commented on What happens to junk left behind in foreclosed homes?
  MDH, the value of the left-behind belongings might really vary between locations. I watched the other video, "Foreclosure Alley", a few months ago. The crew was going through a house with a lot of things that would have done well...
• Commented on Cabinet door's squeals are eerily Chewbaccaesque
  I'd be impressed, except that my labrador retriever whining and complaining that dinner is late sounds exactly like Chewie....
• Commented on Trader Joe's fan commercial not to be missed
  Mimi Pond did a cartoon in the LA Times about TJ's parking lots. cartoon...
• Commented on Life at Wal-Mart
  No idea if Platt worked at Walmart recently or soon after "Nickle and Dimed" came out. If the former, that might explain a lot about why a hundred people are trying to get hired at a Walmart, and why some...
• Commented on The case against Candy Land
  Yay for SET! My 12 and 15 year olds now regularly pound me. There are plenty of games that a parent won't get bored playing with a kid, that only need two people (Clue and Catan and Apples to Apples...
• Commented on What will you miss about newspapers?
  Some people need coffee in the morning. I need my hardcopy newspapers. Even though I'll read a number of news sources online throughout the day, and listen to NPR during my commute, if I can't hold a hardcopy paper in...
• Commented on Susie Bright: The League of Amazing Latkes Q & A
  Usually, I read latke recipes just waiting to pounce because people don't include squeezing out the liquid, which is Key. Love that I learned a new trick (the ricer). I'm personally happy with either flour or matzo meal, but I'll...
• Commented on 50 homemade holiday gifts from LA Times
  For those who are wondering why these are all food items: the article was in the LA Times Food section....
• Commented on Photographic Periodic Table of Elements Cards, Puzzles, Personalized Posters
  Just emailed my high schooler that this is what she should get her science teacher for a Christmas present. Way cool!...
• Commented on Bike helmets that look like hats
  If you think your hair is more important than what's under it, you are probably right....
• Commented on Cops break into wrong house, leave note in magnetic fridge letters
  Agree with Ward that police make mistakes, and the important thing is in how they follow up. A friend of mine's house was broken into by the DEA years ago; the agents had the house number wrong. They trashed the...
• Commented on Rat-owning animal-hoarding rapture-obsessed twin elderly ladies versus the family next door
  The homebuyers did visit the property multiple times--the article said they'd seen the house 8 or 9 times, IIRC. Dunno if they spoke with neighbors or not, but even talking to neighbors doesn't mean that the problem would be mentioned....
• Commented on Recycled teacup lights
  Shoot, Karrock beat me to posting about how MY parents also have that Corelle pattern with the brown flowers....
• Commented on Steampunk R2-D2 tee (steampunk! steampunk! steampunk!)
  I've loved that Mark Twain "Punch, brothers, punch with care/punch in the presence of the passenjare!" story since I was a kid. Now I'm not going to get it out of my head all day!...
• Commented on Faux skylights and windows
  My office is in a building with no windows; I'd love something like this....
• Commented on Free Range Kids, blog for raising kids without being freaked out about safety all the time
  I think part of the issue is worrying about things that are, statistically speaking, not an issue. For instance, my older kid started walking home from school alone when she was 10. This was about a mile along a busy...
• Commented on Documentary about women who collect fake babies
  This topic made me think of "Children of Men"--the book, not the movie. If you're not familiar with either, they're set in a near-future world where no human babies have been born for perhaps twenty years. In the book, some...