"OK, I guess the jig is up. It only took 14 years, 8 months, and about 16 days since I designed SpongeBob's house before I was called out on its fraudulence. And, to be honest with you, I'm tired of living a lie. It's time to come clean and make some changes for the better."
- Ken Morley
"In this one-hour, ground-breaking travel special, you’ll discover the splendid monuments of Iran’s rich and glorious past, learn more about the 20th-century story of this perplexing nation, and experience Iranian life today in its historic capital and in a countryside village."
- Ken Morley
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"A small group of researchers is beginning to test the idea that pre-agricultural "Paleolithic" diets might hold the key to improving modern human health. Dr. Lindeberg and his colleagues have conducted two remarkable clinical trials. In the first, they recruited diabetic and pre-diabetic volunteers with heart disease and placed them on one of two diets: 1) a "Paleolithic" diet, focused on lean meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, starchy root vegetables, eggs and nuts, or 2) a "Mediterranean" diet focused on whole grains, low-fat dairy, vegetables, fruit, fish, oils and margarine. Over the 12-week study period, the Mediterranean group lost body fat and enjoyed an improvement in markers of diabetes. Of nine participants with diabetic blood sugar levels at the beginning of the study, four had normal levels by the end. Those in the Paleo group fared significantly better. They lost 70 percent more body fat than the Mediterranean group and experienced a remarkable normalization of blood sugar. All 10 participants with diabetic blood sugar levels at baseline reached non-diabetic levels by the end of the study."
- Ken Morley
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Glen, as long as you chew the beans you may be okay. Anyone else having trouble getting used to the live insects?
- Ken Morley
I find it interesting that both groups improved....
- Victor Ganata
"Should we all eat a hunter-gatherer diet? Not necessarily. Human evolution did not end with the Paleolithic era. Each person carries a particular set of genetic adaptations that result from the unique dietary environment of his own ancestors, so it's important to emphasize that traditionally prepared grains, legumes and dairy can be healthy foods for many people."
- Victor Ganata
Victor how much was placebo effect and how much improvement was just focusing on the diet no matter its components
- WarLord
I think it's more because they were on controlled diets and they were constantly monitored. Kind of gets back to the idea that all diets work. Some may work better than others, but they all still work.
- Victor Ganata
I was at a Paleo potluck dinner on Saturday night and all the food was delicious. I was full and didn't feel as if I was missing anything because of the lack of grains, wheat, or dairy.
- Corinne L
That's better. 'Less' should be in red, though :)
- Eivind
good tip, e, thanks! :) (indeed i wasn't planning to watch the entire 9 minutes)
- grizabella
It may be grammatically better, but prosodically 'watch less videos's is ugly. Anyway, isn't it assumed that it is 'fewer videos than you do now' I'm being efficient here ;)
- Pete
Your tip would imply that not watching any videos is the best thing you can do for your health. I'mma need to see some data on that.
- Eivind
Oh, you can watch some. Just not the ones that make you worry about your health ;)
- Pete
But...EVERY video I watch will make me worry about my health now!
- Eivind
Then, my child, there is nothing I can do for you. And may Dirac have mercy on your superposition.
- Pete
"Places where you can have a maid clean for you…hire a gardener… wake up to a view…have great health care, eat well, enjoy the finer things in life — for less than $2,000 a month. You may be surprised how many there are…"
- Ken Morley
"Take Daphne Newman, who lives in Caribbean Honduras. She’s spending just $1,400 a month to live yards from a white-sand beach on the island of Roatan. Only a three-hour flight from the US, English-speaking Roatan with its world-class reef just offshore, is an easy place to make friends and fit in."
- Ken Morley
"In Cuenca, Ecuador, Douglas Willis, his wife and two children live on just $1,000 a month. In Costa Rica’s Central Valley, Sharon and Lee Harris bought a townhouse in Heredia for $75,000, and pay only $40 a month for healthcare coverage as members of the Caja, the country’s excellent national healthcare system."
- Ken Morley
"The term was first introduced to the West by Arthur de Gobineau, a rather sinister ethnologist who in the mid-nineteenth century served two tours as a French diplomat in Tehran. It means the art and science of dissimulation, particularly in matters of religion. The ferocious orthodoxy of the Shia mullahs of Iran, Gobineau wrote, could be circumvented by, say, a heretical disciple of Avicenna, as long as the man was careful to make every outward show of conformity. With this done, he could begin to introduce all manner of subversive philosophy into his sermons and addresses:"
- Ken Morley
"Ketman fills the man who practices it with pride. Thanks to it, a believer raises himself to a permanent state of superiority over the man he deceives, be he a minister of state or a powerful king: to him who uses ketman, the other is a miserable blind man whom one shuts off from the true path whose existence he does not suspect; while you, tattered and dying of hunger, trembling...
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- Ken Morley
"Milosz immediately saw the application of this to the double life that was being lived by so many writers and intellectuals under Stalin’s imperium. The Soviet regime to some extent “needed” culture, but also needed to contain it. Milosz was not to foresee that this state of affairs—deemed “Absurdistan” by one Czech author—would one day satirize itself out of existence. ..."
- Ken Morley
"Humans are complicated genetic jigsaw puzzles. Hundreds of genes are involved in determining something as basic as height. But man's best friend is a different story. New research shows that almost every physical trait in dogs — from a dachshund's stumpy legs to a shar-pei's wrinkles — is controlled by just a few genes. "
- Ken Morley
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"It's actually human interference that's the cause of what Ratliff calls 'Tinker-Toy genetics' in dogs. "
- Ken Morley
"So what happens to circus and zoo elephants when they grow old and can no longer earn their keep by entertaining audiences? They move to a retirement home in Tennessee."
- Ken Morley
"It is hard not to be impressed by the young South Korean-born artist Minjae Lee. At just 22 years of age, he has amassed an impressive portfolio of colorful portrait illustrations created mostly with acrylic paint and markers. The dramatic pieces are full of pattern and texture that create the haunting imagery. "
- Ken Morley
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