Fiction excerpt is from the historical time-travel with acupuncture needles novels of Anne Hart. Read this entire story in the book: Who’s Buying Which Popular Short Fiction Now, & What Are They Paying? or the novel, Adventures in my beloved Medieval Alania and Beyond. Yom Kippur, Bethlehem, July 985 AD Yom Kippur means to me a time […]
Why it’s healthier to sit down to family meals together with classical music in the background
Food with family is strong medicine. So is relaxing or motivational music that enhances concentration while you eat or even when you choose what foods to cook or buy for each meal. Here’s how they work in tandem to enhance memory and digestion along with conversation and body language. The family that eats together speaks […]
States Ignoring Stimulus Welfare Fund
This story was co-published [1] with USA Today and will appear in that newspaper on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. Hundreds line up outside a Chase Bank in Jackson Heights, Queens, N.Y., to take advantage of the free funds aimed at helping underprivileged children. Every child between 3 and 17 was eligible for $200. (John […]
Unlocking the Talent of a Musical Savant
Nicknamed the “human iPod,” pianist Derek Paravicini is wowing audiences with his extraordinary repertoire of thousands of songs he can play entirely by memory. A Musical Gift Derek Paravicini has a rare musical gift called absolute pitch. If someone plays a chord with ten notes in it, he can decipher each one individually, when most […]
China Installs Surveillance in Exam Halls
By Anita Kinney SATURDAY JUNE 06, 2009 Photographer: Darien Library BEIJING (The International) — Cameras are being installed in 60,000 Chinese test centres ahead of the national college entrance exams, beginning on June 7th. E-police will also be in place to block any students who try to use radio transmitters or other communication devices to cheat. Additional […]
`Hidden’ features of Apple iLife `09
`Hidden’ features of Apple iLife `09 Apple recently released upgraded its suite of iLife applications. Apple iLife `09 packs updates to iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand. The package also includes iWeb ’09 for creating Web sites and iDVD ’09 for creating DVDs. Apple unveiled the iLife upgrade at the Macworld conference in San Francisco last month. […]