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Tout Disparaître
Welcome to another edition of What We Killed This Thursday. Dracaena umbraculifera, Umbrella dracaena, was found on Mauritius in 1797. It was propagated and grown by plant collectors and is found in several botanic gardens, but has not been seen in the wild since the original description. Mauritius is a fairly remote island with relatively […]
Pi(e) Day!
March 14th was Pi Day and the first day of spring break. Of course, I had a party – only round food allowed! I had lots and lots of leftover pumpkin in the freezer, so I decided to make some pumpkin pies. I hadn’t made a pumpkin pie since I realized that dairy and eggs […]
Migraine Log – Week 17
I’ve been keeping track of my migraines for several months now to see if Petadolex would help my migraines. What I’d hoped to see with Petadolex was fewer migraines relative to bad weather days (my main migraine trigger). On the graph, that would mean more points below the line than on or above it. It […]
Life vs. living
From Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: I happened to lose my life at one particular moment in time, and I have gone on living these forty years or more with my life lost. As a person who finds himself in such a position, I have come to think that life is a far more […]
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What I’ve Noticed
Finding effective treatments for Lyme disease and other chronic illnesses has become much more difficult. As usual, it’s all about the money: The problem, they say, started back in 1980, when Ronald Reagan changed the rules governing how scientists (and the entities they work for) profit from their work. Where scientists used to gain fame […]