Somebody mentioned that the stuff in my blogs is a "hodge-podge" of disconnected and half-baked information. Of course! That is what I want to write about. As a member of that august body of Mensans, I try to keep up with all matters, big or small, that are taking place around us. The world is such a remarkable place.. especially at this time of brain expansion.
My "Brain" Great Courses professor says that most people who are polled, say that they would like to live until the age of 120; she says that she would like to live to be 150. Besides being a bonafide college professor, she is an opera singer and runs several podcasts. I'm also sure that she belongs to Mensa. Some people have enough interests to keep them occupied until the age of 150, whereas, many folks are burned out and bored by age 60. As our esteemed President tweets: SAD!
Genealogy Breakthroughs
My family is happily welcoming new relatives, thanks to DNA testing. I won't be mentioning the details on this blog. Call me up if you are interested.
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
WAMU is having their nine hundredth pitch for funds, so all of their radio programs are being shortened or eliminated for a week or so. This would normally mean that I would be getting my news from television (CNN; MSNBC; and the like.) However, now that I can get Podcasts, I can listen to a great number of news outlets as well as "feel-good" shows such as WWDTM.
I just listened to the March 3rd, 2017 WWDTM show and have a few comments on things said on that show:
PEE in Your Pool!
NPR reports on information in the Environmental Science and Technology Letter about the effect of urine in swimming pools.
You might be surprised to learn that the average home pool contains at least 2 quarts of urine mixed in with the water. Most people will not admit that they pee in a pool. Don't believe them!
According to Xing-Fang Li of the University of Alberta, urine can mix with other normal pool chemicals that contain ammonia, and create Mustard Gas... remember? World War I?
Xing-Fang has found a way to determine the amount of urine by searching for the residue of artificial sweeteners in the urine. While the average level of urine in pools does not usually approach toxic levels... it theoretically could. So... people should put up that sign that is sold by Northern Sun:
We don't swim in your toilet; Don't pee in our pool!
(Incidentally, although this information is just being put out, this problem was identified in Science Digest way back in 2014.)
New Exercise Advice
The human body contains 657 muscles and there is only one exercise that uses all of them. That exercise is SEX, according to writers in the British newspaper: The Telegraph.
Somebody named Bill Borrows says that playing golf uses only 137 muscles; running for a bus (what they do often in Britain) uses only 99 muscles. But SEX... uses all 657 muscles, including the so-called "sex-hero" muscle. This is the famous muscle in both males and females that has the wonderful name of "bulbospongiosus."
This information will of course be of vital importance to the well-being of both man- and woman-kind.
New Sheriff in Town
In line with the kind of "Wild West" atmosphere in Washington, D.C. these past couple of weeks, the new Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, rode into work on a horse, accompanied by some of DC's famous police cavalry. It must have been as though Wild Bill Hickock's Rodeo was entering town once again.
Secretary Zinke's entrance was enhanced by the playing of a Cherokee tribal drum by a Native American. Mr. Zinke immediately shouted to his appreciative audience: "Let's get to work!"
AMEN!
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