When James Harrison, from Australia, first started giving blood about 56 years ago, he never thought he would end up saving the lives of over 2 million children. Harrison made a pledge to become a donor at the age of 14, after undergoing major chest surgery, in which he himself needed 13 litres of blood. “I was in the hospital …
Zumba Classes Recently, my daughter Cindy registered me for a class in “Zumba” (an exercise done to Latin music) as a Christmas gift. Apparently, I don’t get enough exercise to suit her. My girlfriends all wanted me to email them after my class to let them know how it went, so here’s what I sent them: Hi Girls, I know …
Will’s Thought’s – I’m sorry for things that I have not done for senior citizens. I drove past the cemetery on a cold, gray blustery day, and saw an old woman kneeling beside a grave. As the wind whipped her scarf, her concentration never faltered, her gaze was fixed far beyond our world. For a brief second, empathy flooded my …
Will’s Thoughts – War On Drugs And Thugs Is A Limp Wristed Action In my opinion, Canada either needs to declare ‘war’ on illegal drugs, or give them to users as legal prescriptions. For decades we’ve heard about what is called a war on drugs, but really, all it has been is a limp wristed ‘military action’ on minor thugs. …
Easter Island is one of the most mysterious locations on Earth. The mysterious statues, the Moa, with their long staring eyes looking into the distance as if warding off invaders, or beseeching distant travelers to come closer, are still the center of archaeological debate. Now Easter Island’s a center of wonder again, because scientists have unearthed a new compound that …
Thanks to a circulating pump that dives a new artificial heart, we may one day soon be surrounded by people who are alive, but have no pulse. Heart disease is mankind’s biggest cause of death, but one doctor’s out to change that dramatically. Dr. William Cohn developed the rhythmless heart that uses a circulating pump, likening it to other inventions …
No Extra Money? Thank goodness for the Beauty Lift High Nose Electric Nose Lift. Plastic surgery can cost a fortune, and in these times, not too many people have the extra money to get that perfect nose. But all is not lost. Now you can have that perfect schnoz. No scalpels, no doctors and it won’t break the bank! The …
Soda Pot A California entrepreneur came up with a sparkling idea, Soda Pot (Canna Cola), a line of medical marijuana soft drinks. Clay Butler, a resident of Soquel, and a commercial artist, says that he plans to supply medical marijuana dispensaries with his bubbly buzz which contains marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient THC, according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper. Marijuana Drinks …
Lunar Baby Thermometer Designer Duck Young Kong has created the Lunar Baby Thermometer, a simple and un-invasive way to check body temperature without the placing of glass sticks in orifices of discontent. Easier And Faster It’s as easy as putting your hand on a forehead to measure body heat. Checking the temperature by scanning the forehead with this device is …
Intelligence Toilet II Is Appealing To Female Customers Toto, the Japanese toilet maker that came up with the Intelligence Toilet back in 2005, has done it again, but this time making their toilet more appealing to female customers. Costing up to $6,100, the Intelligence Toilet II, just like its predecessor, offers its users a mini-physical every time they answer the …
Is There A Magical Urine Detection Dye For Pools? The answer to whether it’s true or false that there’s a dye to detect urine in swimming pools is that it’s false: No matter what your parents told you, or what you see in the movies, there isn’t any magical chemical that when added to a swimming pool, will reveal the …
