July 2010

Lifehack suggests 6 Steps To Remove TV From Your Life.

2. Remove your cable subscription.
Being subscribed to the cable TV makes you feel compelled to keep watching, so as to maximize the value of your subscription. If you’re serious about removing TV from your life, unsubscribe immediately. Forget about the line-up of shows on cable – not only do you get a big chunk of your life back, you also save money in the process.

The world is just nuts… so sit back and laugh.

(via Crooks and Liars)

Later today I will be having dinner with a lovely young lady who collects eggs. So I started to wonder, on this day set aside to celebrate the founding of our nation… does she know this little ditty about turkeys, eagles, and eggs from the film '1776'?

My beautiful and scary-intelligent sister-in-law is a physician specializing in the brain. So, naturally, when I see a list of 18 Beautiful Infographics About the Human Brain, I'm going to have to post it here.

If you are interested in seeing what the different regions of the brain are responsible for, this infographic is quite enlightening.

It offers a look at what goes on in different areas, such as the fact that reading and comprehension take place in the parietal lobe, near the occipital lobe. You can also see that sensory speech goes over more than one lobe. Color coding makes it easier to identify different regions.