Keith…who?
Keith Olbermann. His excellent news commentary program titled Countdown can be seen on MSNBC, weeknights, 8-9 p.m. Eastern time. It’s smart, witty and downright funny. I watched the program every single night during my recent visit to the States. I was instantly hooked. Still am, for that matter.
What I really like is that Keith does his [...]
Today I was hit hard by jet lag. Not on Monday, not yesterday. Today. Go figure.
At any rate, in between snoozes, mental wanderings and loads of laundry, I have been working on a couple of different posts. In addition to all the studies I still have to read (!), a couple of blog readers have sent me [...]
On Saturday, the day before I returned to Italy, my sister and I went off on a long drive—to the herring run in Harwich and to Chatham, with its picturesque old houses.
On our way home, we stopped at Cold Storage Beach (see photo) in East Dennis where we were treated to an extraordinary sight, that of a seemingly endless stream of [...]
I returned to Florence yesterday afternoon and am still a bit jet-lagged. Zzzzz! Easy flight, though. Thanks to strong tail winds, the flight (Boston-Zurich) was over before I had time to finish watching a second movie. Drat, I hate to miss movie endings… Plus, the first movie I watched, as you will soon read, was a [...]
A couple of blog readers, thanks!, as well as a Google Alert, informed me of a new study on multiple myeloma, bortezomib (=Velcade) and curcumin, which Sherlock (grazie!) found and sent to me. This afternoon I had a bit of time off from Scrabble playing (I have actually won a few games!) and visiting with [...]
Unfortunately, my manatee story doesn’t have a happy ending, as I found out early this morning. Dennis didn’t make it. According to news reports, he died inside the truck that was transporting him to Sea World in Florida…just an hour before getting there. Just an hour. I cannot even imagine how the rescuers feel…devastated undoubtedly [...]
I went to visit “Dennis” (the 800-pound stranded manatee) yesterday, too. He was chomping on some algae underneath one of the piers, so I got a good view of him from above, but there were too many people there. I didn’t stay long.
This morning I had family matters to attend to, so I missed the [...]
Early this morning I read about the recent spotting of a manatee, also known as “sea cow,” in Sesuit Harbor, East Dennis. Here is a report about it: http://tinyurl.com/4y9k9q. Well, Sesuit Harbor is just a five-minute drive from my parents’ house. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. So I grabbed my camera and off I went…there were [...]
While waiting for the second presidential debate to begin this evening, I watched Jon Stewart commenting on the recent VP debate. HILARIOUS! I laughed out loud. See: http://tinyurl.com/4ufz8q.
When asked what the VP candidates had to do in order to be successful during the debate (this obviously occurred before the debate took place), media analysts answered that [...]
I had time this morning to glance at some older Science Daily articles, including this one, published in mid August, on a drug commonly used to treat anaemic cancer patients: http://tinyurl.com/474ptk. The article begins as follows: A recent study published in American Journal of Hematology demonstrated that Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs), a widely used drug to treat [...]
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