TV, Internet Causing Kids Harm: Report
Washington Post - TUESDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- There's a strong link between media exposure and childhood obesity, smoking and sexual activity, according to US researchers who reviewed 173 studies on media and health conducted over the past three decades.
The brain, when tricked by optical and sensory illusions, can quickly adopt any other human form, no matter how different, as its own [more] ... [more]
Social scientists and historians have long made a serious error by not taking natural resources into account in their attempts to understand social structures ... [more]
Learning by heart is pointless for Google generation
The secret ingredient First identified in Japan a century ago, umami is now taking Europe's kitchens by storm
'Super ants' threaten UK gardens Species which forms supercolonies and infests gardens is marching rapidly across Europe <== today's worry
White Russians Arise, This Time at a Bowling Alley
The White Russian, a sweet cocktail made with vodka, Kahlúa and cream or milk, is seeing a renaissance thanks in large part to the cult following of “The Big Lebowski.”
Video: Lebowski's Libation
Highland Friends to Warm the Night
While single malts can be enjoyed year-round, the onset of winter and long cold nights is perfect whiskey weather.
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New Improved Bartenders Can Be Quite Old-Fashioned
Drinkers don’t need to search far to find bartenders who make their own bitters, have an encyclopedic knowledge of drinks and stock spirits imported in a suitcase.
A Brotherhood Formed With Cocktails and Ice
A growing legion of amateur connoisseurs have turned recherché cocktails into a lifestyle, or to hear some tell it, a religion.
This Week's Recipes
addenda <== an eclectic reading list
Fred Astaire (Icons of America) by Joseph Epstein
In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage - Joseph Epstein; Paperback
The Best Short Stories of Jack London - Jack London; Paperback
Ava Gardner: "Love Is Nothing" - Lee Server
The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire & Invasion - Paddy Docherty
The Unbearable Saki: The Work of H. H. Munro - Sandie Byrne
Transfinite: The Essential A. E. Van Vogt by A. E. Van Vogt
A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich, Clifford Harper, and Caroline Mustill
The Best of "Punch" Cartoons by Helen Walasek
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch by Michael Wolff
Bierce: The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce (Bison Books)
The Complete Short Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by Saki and H. Munro
Selected Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by Rudyard Kipling and Andrew Rutherford
I'll Let You Know When We Get There by Doris C. Baker
Legionnaire: An Englishman in the French Foreign Legion by Simon Murray
Language and Human Nature by Mark Halpern
