You hear a lot about how the media potrays super-skinny models and they make poor role models for young women. Today I turned on the TV and there was a cartoon with an obese girl in it. Interesting, I thought, they’re trying to portray reality. Then I noticed that every other character had a waist […]
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I just read an interesting article by Clay Shirky, Gin, Television and Social Surplus. He says that we have a social surplus right now. In the early industrial revolution, people had surplus time, so they drank gin. He says we eventually figured out how to use our time with more education, public libraries and museums.
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TV! This latest study found that watching TV lowers melatonin levels which can create all sorts of nasty side effects in children. This study (as others) linked TV watching in kids to: autism obesity trouble sleeping eye problems lower melatonin levels early puberty In adults, "the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease increases with each extra
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We are watching CSI Miami and Frank is having a hard time … he wants me to know that there is no Ruger 10/22 .223 caliber gun. This isn’t the first time they’ve talked about a gun that Frank says doesn’t exist. He even went and got a shell that goes into his Ruger 10/22
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