A few days ago I blogged about the adoption agency that is buying human embryos – I wrote that I think they are on morally shaky ground. Well, today’s news gives me the same confused and uncomfortable feeling. This guy’s family took sperm from his dead body, found a volunteer mom and they are having […]
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If you like to ask "why" questions, this book is for you. Jared Diamond answers why some societies succeeded and why some, like the Mayans or Aztecs, didn’t. I don’t want to give away the book, but here are some examples that he uses: Agricultural societies could store food. Storing food enabled them to have
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You should always put your entire trip on one itinerary. Here are two reasons why along with some real life pain caused by multiple itineraries. You should put all your flights on one itinerary because if anything goes wrong, the airlines will help you get to your final destination. If you are on multiple itineraries
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Last night on my way home I got a text message from eBay saying I hadn’t won the item I bid on. That was a little strange. I use eSnipe, so usually if I bid, I win the item. – If the item is still below what I’m willing to pay for it, three seconds
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I ordered a treadmill from FogDog.com and I won’t be ordering from them again. I placed the order on 12/28/06, they sent me a confirmation email that same day. According to the website they gave me to track my order it shipped on 12/29/06. There were no updates to the website. So I called on
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Both of my grandmothers have blogs now! I’m very proud of them and I’m very proud of my mom for typing in the stories and creating the blogs: South Dakota Mary Vera Check them out – they are/were amazing women!
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Speaking of unusual careers. This woman picks lice eggs out of (mostly) children’s hair. She charges $100/hr and it can take her 2-3 hours of painstakingly detailed work to completely remove the eggs from a head of hair. In case you are wondering why you can’t just use one of those shampoos … the shampoos
I’m always looking for better sites to find cheap airfares. I get really frustrated that the airlines can charge not just different fares for different days but different fares for the same seats on the same airplane! I found this site, ITA Software, yesterday and it’s great! It even has an option "search within this
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This adoption agency is now providing embryos! They buy eggs from women, get sperm from donors, combine them, make embryos and then provide them to couples as a "service." So they say they are not selling them. But since they own them, it sure seems to me like they are selling them. Whether or not
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