you're less likely to get sick - and not necessarily the you you. The aggregate you. So if you expose a quantity of vaccinated people, and a similar quantity of unvaccinated people, it's not going...

It seems that all holidays celebrate someone's legacy, and closing places gives employees a day to celebrate a day off, so libraries are no different. I doubt if most people give much thought to...

surely that question answers itself.

A lot of the time they use the dodge "people say..." or "some people believe..." which is a CYA technique that removes the burden of having to come up with...

I count Fox News as "doubt worthy", and would check other more reliable sources.

"The dose makes the poison"

Paracelsus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus

This has been known since the Renaissance - get a...

Thank you for this information. Maybe toxicity has to do with the "amount" of exposure or ingestion? Some people are more sensitive to common foods and other substances because of certain chemicals...

coincidentally enough, I just came across this:

so, if you're using a juicer for your health, you're probably increasing your exposure to formaldehyde!

I don't say this just to try to ridicule...

people panic very easily. Your body is full of toxins that it makes itself but you wouldn't want to come into external contact with. Chemicals like sodium chloride can easily kill you, or make a...

Great points Dan, but thought I'd add a few. It is important to note that recycled wastewater still contains many of the medicinals that pass through peoples waste: pharmaceuticals and endocrine...

from borowitzreport.com:


SACRAMENTO (The Borowitz Report) – A new poll shows that Americans who were unconcerned about climate change as it wreaked havoc around the world are beginning to...

With California drifting into a long drought, the state is poised for a series of political water wars.
Who gets the limited supplies of water will be an ongoing struggle of immense proportions.
...

everything was tied to eugenics then.

well, not quite. But, for example, take a look at the history of IQ tests. The early 20th century was full of crazy ideas about how to perfect the human race....

This I believe is true: Ygrene is setup in part by former Sonoma County employees to finance retrofitting of homes and businesses and even government buildings.

They quit their jobs to start a...

I couldn't agree more with the views expressed in these messages. If all the dogs on our big campus can keep their mouths shut, so can their neighbors and your neighbors.
Praying for Peace,
Rev....

As a former dog owner and a current neighbor impacted by my neighbor's barking dog, It is really difficult for me to comprehend how inconsiderate and uncaring some dog owners are. Dogs bark for a...

Thank you, I will show this to Animal Control in April. Your explanation is exactly why I am being so militant about this.

It IS like hearing please! please! please! please! please! screamed...

I live on a campus with about 199 other people and many service dogs. I have never heard one of them bark. They are trained to assist their owners and provide wonderful service and comfort to many...

I am soooo grateful to know that there is finally hope for those of us who live next door to rude, inconsiderate and inhumane dog owners who allow their poor unattended, lonely and stressed out dogs...

Of course dogs bark, but when the barking becomes repetitive and constant, something else is going on.......and more than likely the animal is stressed, lonely and unhappy. That is not good for the...

Here's a link to today's Press Democrat editorial "Getting Ready for the Next Drought".

Great time to respond to the PD's editorial at [email protected] with letters up to 200 words....

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you’re feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you’re reading. – May Sarton

TAKING NOTES - PLAYING...

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FWJQ8P330430
MEETING SET, please take survey if you haven't already.

Animal Control has set the meeting a couple weeks away for me to present the results of the...

california has enough water for everything but agriculture, where the rationing is severe. global disaster will most likely come through crop failure, a starving anthill is unstable. as wheat, rice,...

Gosh, I really appreciate the subjects raised here. Thank you Larry. I wish I were comfortable passing it on to my facebook stream, I'd like to stimulate more conversation on the subject. :thumbsup:

Born Again Poet

I feel like a born again poet viewinghttps://www.waccobb.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=30341&stc=1
the world with fresh enthusiasm.
Inertia has lifted and my fingers...

from borowitzreport.com:

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – After a challenging week for the legislative body, the approval rating of the...

the answer is pretty clearly no. It'll be interesting if this is the first of the many predicted and plausible end-of-status-quo (I know, some would say end-of-life-as-we-know-it) disasters.
...

for a contrarian view that Fukushima is actually not about to disrupt life as the Japanese know it, much less us:

from Wired (yeah, I know, not a scientific journal.)

...

California has about one year of water left. Will you ration now?

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-famiglietti-drought-california-20150313-story.html

....
In short, we have no...

Desire


A woman in my class wrote that she is sickhttps://www.waccobb.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=30316&stc=1
of men wanting her body and when she reads
her poem out loud the other...

I don't see why the city of Sebastopol doesn't simply place a blanket ban on development of any more wineries/tasting rooms in the zip code. Make it impossible for anyone to develop these...

The paramedic ought to have handed the baby to the mama so they could be skin to skin.
Baby would've breathed just fine, most likely, on his own.

Here's your answer.


Due to a power outage, only one paramedic responded to
the call. The house was very dark so the paramedic asked Kathleen, a 3-yr
old girl to hold a flashlight high over...

There will be a demonstration on behalf of Rasmeah Odeh on Thursday, March 12, from 9-10 A.M., at Fourth St. and Santa Rosa Ave. If you can, please bring a sign saying, e.g., "Phone your Senators:...

For the signage to be truly appropriate and organic with the architecture of the Barlow, I would suggest that it consist of huge block letters, the full length of the tin walls, saying SARDINES.
...

Last week was my birthday and I didn't feel
very well waking up on that morning.

I went downstairs for breakfast
hoping my husband would be pleasant and say,
'Happy Birthday!',
and possibly...

You're invited to submit your personal views regarding Nuisance Barking in Sonoma County.30160
You can remain anonymous and do not have to provide any personal information....

heres a place to start...
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/oct/10/facebook-posts/viral-facebook-post-ceo-worker-pay-ratio-has-obscu/

More hysteria.

Read more about geiger counters before trying to sound like you know something. Count rates don't equate to dosage rates. Were you taking reading during a Solar flare? Do you have a...

that's some interesting science... 'course, I thought the sun was mostly hydrogen and helium.

and geomar, the source of the video, doesn't seem to share your alarm. Their website doesn't make...

Since I'm sort of thin skinned, I've been offended personally many times, but I realize that induldging in feeling offended has little value, for me at least, and since it has no value, it seems...

The “Belief Bubble”<o:p></o:p>
What is in your head?<o:p></o:p>
Is it:<o:p></o:p>
Believing or thinking?<o:p></o:p>
Intuiting or imagining?
Deluding or hallucinating?<o:p></o:p>
Instincts or...

one of our local whistle blowers ...

https://www.times-standard.com/general-news/20150227/whistleblowers-book-tells-his-humboldt-county-story

Dear Dixon, Thanks for your response. I didn't intend for it to seem that I devalue rationality. I think all our capacities are important and that they are a complex weave. And I share your deep...

Hi Dixon, Thanks for sharing. Einstein himself said that none of his discoveries came from using his rational mind. I probably could have a made that clearer. Best, Suzanne

We had a moving celebration of Tara's life yesterday. Some family members were there, her co-housing neighbors, and Buddhists who lead the ceremony, as well as end-of-life caregivers. It was a...

Tara was a bright light who contributed much to her community. What time will the Sat. celebration be?

P.s: some people make a mismatch confounding 'rainmaking', shooting silveriodide crystals in the air, in the lower clouds by expensive fireworks (beware of silver poisoning). Not very popular because...

I read somewhere in the thread: The people of 'The Belfort Group' are "scientists".

No, they're not. 'The Belfort Group' is just a 'bunch of people' with a 'hobby'. Not scientists at all. The...

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