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“Things weren’t necessarily better in ye olden dayes, or even all that different. But what, oh what, has happened to the grapefruit? When I was a kid, you would often sit down to a meal (not necessarily breakfast), to be confronted with a halved grapefruit. The reason hotels no longer serve grapefruit is that Britain …
I am in the middle of two weeks of jury duty, or, at least, standing by for jury duty. Yesterday I wasn’t required (white, old and looks like he might be rude to the judge about the number of incarcerations in the US, maybe?). In any event, I had half the morning off, so, feeling …
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In a poll 8.6 percent of the 3,000 Americans surveyed said that during a typical week, they ate no meat (poultry and fish excluded). Some 56 percent ate meat one to four times a week, and 31 percent ate it five or more time a week. A later poll asked the same questions, plus an …
Across the developed world, the combination of slow economic growth and an ageing population is creating a market for cheap, hi-tech solutions to elderly care. There’s the RoboCoach: an android that is being used in Singapore to give exercise classes to senior citizens, using motion sensors to detect whether they are doing it right. Then …
“It is a melancholy of my own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness”. As you Like it
