another week closer to the eschaton…

double whammy! friday the 13th comes on a monday this month… namely today! we’ll start this off with more oil-spill madness: BP Challenges Oil Spill Amount In An Attempt to Reduce Cost of Fines – it never ended, media just got tired of reporting it… 😐 for example: Navy Secretary Mabus pushes Pentagon to feed … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton…

another week closer to the eschaton…

we’ll start out this week’s post with a public service announcement: National Chronic Illness Awareness Week is coming up 13-19 september. be nice to somebody: one in two americans has an invisible chronic illness or condition! Predator drones patrols of southern US border start Wednesday – this is now a police state, where only the … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton…

Toxoplasma Modified Humans – i’m glad to see that people who actually know what they’re talking about are looking into this, because i have been suspicious of Toxoplasma gondii for number of years, and this guy seems to be talking about the same stuff that i’ve been wondering about for a long time. the big … Continue reading

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this article doesn’t have anything directly to do with toxoplasma gondii, but it raises the question of why cats “domesticated themselves”, especially considering how prevalent toxoplasma gondii has become in human beings as a result of their interactions with cats… i’ve just got to wonder what the toxoplasma gondii microbe is really up to… Why … Continue reading 1038

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Aussies go crazy for cat poo coffeeMay 16, 2007 CANBERRA – Cafe-crazy Australians in the last decade have embraced coffee in all its forms, but they’ve saved the most expensive — and excremental — for last. Kopi Luwak, made in neighboring Indonesia from coffee beans excreted by native civet cats, is reputedly the world’s rarest … Continue reading 971

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Mind-Control Microbe parasitic infection can give you schizophrenia, make you have a car crash, or determine the sex of your child.03.01.2007by Kathy A. Svitil Five years ago, Oxford University zoologists showed that the parasite Toxoplasma gondii alters the brain chemistry of rats so that they are more likely to seek out cats. Infection thus makes … Continue reading 893

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Parasite makes men dumb, women sexyDecember 26, 2006 A common parasite can increase a women’s attractiveness to the opposite sex but also make men more stupid, an Australian researcher says. About 40 per cent of the world’s population is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, including about eight million Australians. Human infection generally occurs when people eat … Continue reading 780

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Fnord? Fnord is evaporated herbal tea without the herbs. Fnord is that funny feeling you get when you reach for the Snickers bar and come back holding a slurpee. Fnord is the 43 1/3rd state, next to Wyoming. Fnord is this really, really tall mountain. Fnord is the reason boxes of condoms carry twelve instead … Continue reading 338