Author: Dr Wingnut
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Major food groups
When I was a child, the USDA told us that there were four food groups:GrainsMeatFruits and VegetablesDairyThen in the last decade they came up with the food pyramid that moved some things around and changed the daily suggested requirements for each group. The doctor has always, since college, believed that the correct number of food…
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Why Bars Are So Smoky
Cigarettes and booze often share each other’s company, and Duke University scientists believe they have found a physiological reason why. Even a small amount of alcohol seems to significantly boost the pleasurable effects of nicotine. The researchers are testing drugs that can break this link, hoping to find a treatment that can help people kick…
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Courage
We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn’t do.Richard L. Evans
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Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!
Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at [the] very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.Mel Brooks
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How Amazon Does it
Hire the best, raise the bar, don’t treat engineers as order takers, empower teams, remove friction, and know when to buy and when to build.Allan Vermeulen
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Fool
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.Mark Twain
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English
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.James Davis Nicoll