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31 December 2007

My Faves for Sunday, December 30, 2007

Quoted: Neurology: Tremor: Rest Parkinsons

[tags: pd]

Quoted: sections include: loss of the sense of smell, loss of smell as a sign of neurological disease, diagnosis and treatment

[tags: pd, health]

Quoted: To ensure economic stability, countries in South America, Asia, and and the Middle East peg their currency to the US dollar. As the dollar sinks to new lows, many countries are reconsidering their economic allegiance because it devalues and restricts their own currency, often resulting in inflation. Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela have already taken steps to revalue their currencies. If enough governments decide to cut ties with the dollar, consequences could be serious: our currency would freefall.

[tags: politics, finance, currency]

From before the Spanish Conquest, cocoa and chocolate have been prescribed by doctors for a dizzying array of totally unrelated ailments and diseases, everything from dysentery (dissolve cocoa in water with a pinch of ground bones of your ancestors, as taken by the Aztecs) to “decayed health, weak lungs or scorbutic (relating to scurvy) tendencies” for which J.S. Fry & Son’s chocolate was recommended in the 1820s.

[tags: chocolate, health]

Quoted: A comprehensive Chocolate Glossary. THE NIBBLE, Great Food Finds, is an online gourmet food magazine with 1000+ product reviews including gourmet chocolate, plus informative articles.

[tags: Chocolate, reference, CulinaryAdventures]

Quoted: Derron Brown plays 9 games of chess against some of the world's top chess players--at once!

[tags: video, games, chess]

Get on with it!

Quoted: Every Japanese game show clip you see instantly becomes the best one you've ever seen.

[tags: games]

Quoted: Global warming, pollution, dwindling natural resources and soaring energy costs are very much on everyone's mind these days. So it comes as no surprise that there is a strong investor interest in clean technologies, otherwise known as "clean-tech."

[tags: nanotech, solar, environment]

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