Miracle Weight Loss Plan
Take the bus! No really. A study shows evidence that using mass transit causes people to lose weight. I’m going to be walking extra today to get the bus to pick up my car. Hey, whatever gets you up on your feet. There’s a potential link between air pollution and obesity. Also a link between [...]
Public Transit Cut Again
I had to take my car in for repairs yesterday and I caught a bus back home. I’d never taken the bus from Taunton Ave., and was pleased to find that the service is good. The bus was full. One of the passengers was a disabled little girl in a wheelchair. Taking RIPTA saves somebody [...]
Mackerel is the New Salmon?
Well, you won’t see canned mackerel on the menu at the finer restaurants, and kids won’t eat it. On the other hand, it’s cheap, safe, full of omega-3′s, and not as ecologically costly to harvest as swordfish and tuna. A lot of my friends and neighbors are facing real hard times. I’m just having to [...]
Double Down on McAsian Carp
This Sunday’s New York Times has an article about how we are extincting Bluefin Tuna because we love it to death. We’re eating them all. The BP oil disaster may be the final blow. At the same time, we have a problem in the Great Lakes with Asian Carp invading the ecosystem and multiplying out [...]
All Hail the Rail Trail!
When my body and spirit grow restless, I like to walk. A 30-60 minute ramble loosens the kinks from head to toe. I am fortunate to live close to the Manhan Rail Trail, which is my favorite local spot for perambulation. (That’s right. I said, “perambulation.” I like to trot out the fancy words once [...]
Ain’t Love Grand
Morning report from the garden. When you only live for three weeks you have to make the best of it. Let me say that I am not the only film critic who thinks that the best love scene of all time was the snails in ‘Microcosmos’. Weren’t we supposed to get a thunderstorm? My car, [...]
Chipotle Chips in For Better School Lunches
One of the better food places to locate in Cranston of late is the Chipotle in Garden City. So imagine my delight when I heard that they are sponsoring a campaign to give $50,000 to a fund to improve the quality of school lunches. From a blog called Love and Trash: “We don’t like junk. [...]
Extraterrestrial
SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, has a new director. For 25 years, scientists in Mountain View, California have been manning listening stations, hoping not to miss the moment aliens make contact with us humans. The place is known as the SETI Institute. It was inspired by the famed astronomer Carl Sagan. And the idea [...]
Amazing Health Benefits of Coffee
This article summarizes research on coffee’s benefits. Enjoy your java as you read!
Ruth Dealy at Imago Gallery
Ruth Dealy spoke at Imago on June 24th. Ruth is one of Rhode Island’s most uncompromising artists, working big with vivid images of what she sees out her window and in her mirror. It looks abstract, she says she makes nothing up and just paints what’s there. A sample of Ruth’s work is on her [...]
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