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- The Oldest Known Artificial Pigment: Egyptian Blue
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Posted: 05 Dec 2014 02:13 AM PST
Recently one of my patients fell suddenly and very seriously ill from a virus. One day he was fine, the next day he felt like he had been hit by a truck: body an joint aches, exhaustion, fever, pounding migraine - all the good stuff.
A day later he was admitted to the hospital, and stayed there for a few days with classic markers of a vicious virus, including elevated liver enzymes and decreased white blood cells (these are the soldiers that comprise the front lines of battle; the decrease in WBC count meant that they were being killed off quickly by something vicious). He was kept and monitored for several days, then when he improved enough, sent home to convalesce. When I saw him this past week, he was a bit tired, and very subluxated (in particular his upper neck) but on the mend. If my patient had not already been quite healthy, how might this virus have affected him?  Read Entire Article »  |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2014 02:00 AM PST
One of breakout standup routines from the late, great George Carlin was his 1972 monologue “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” In the presence of polite company, I shall not repeat them… but rest assured, the routine is still hilarious to this day.
I wish I could say the same about the Department of Homeland Security… I wish I could say this is all a big joke… that the government’s “377 words you can never use online” is just some stupid comedy routine. But it’s not. And you just can’t make this stuff. After vigorous resistance, the Department of Homeland Security was finally forced into releasing it’s 2011 Analyst’s Desktop Binder. It’s a manual of sorts, teaching all the storm troopers who monitor our Internet activity all day which key words to look for.  Read Entire Article »  |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2014 01:20 AM PST
On October 22, 1981, the government of the United States of America accumulated an astounding $1 TRILLION in debt.
At that point, it had taken the country 74,984 days (more than 205 years) to accumulate its first trillion in debt. It would take less than five years to accumulate its second trillion. And as the US government just hit $18 trillion in debt on Friday afternoon, it has taken a measly 403 days to accumulate its most recent trillion.  Read Entire Article »  |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2014 01:12 AM PST
Egyptian Blue, also known as calcium copper silicate, is one of the first artificial pigments known to have been used by man.
The oldest known example of the exquisite pigment is said to be about 5000 years old, found in a tomb painting dated to the reign of Ka-Sen, the last pharaoh of the First Dynasty. Others, however, state that the earliest evidence of the use of Egyptian blue is from the Fourth Dynasty and the Middle Kingdom, around 4,500 years ago. Nevertheless, by the New Kingdom, Egyptian Blue was used plentifully as a pigment in painting and can be found on statues, tomb paintings and sarcophagi.  Read Entire Article »  |
