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I find interesting links here and there. Not all will have indepth discussion, but they're still something I want to share. So, here's a place to post and discuss all those awesome links you find.

What About Grass-fed Beef?

Safe and Effective? A Consumer’s Guide to Natural Health Products

Really interesting: oscilliococcinum is made from duck. My aunt was all crazy into homeopathy and gave me some of that. It worked on my cold about as well as stubbing my toe on a chair.

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Why College Is Overrated

Instead of looking at where students got their degree, we need to start looking at their real-world experience and the skills they’ve developed.

This, so much. It's a shame that so many people get overlooked because they don't have a piece of paper stating they have X amount of time in a classroom. Perhaps it's just me, but my shop marks transcended all sit down and listen classes - telling me that hands on learning greatly outweighs being told. Also, that not everyone is a visual or auditory learner, the kinesthetic learner is abandoned.

learning styles

Jonathan Kay: Shame on journalists who peddle the debunked link between vaccines and autism

Interesting article. I definitely agree that websites shouldn't be taken at their full word. And, well, neither should scientific research, unless you know who paid the bill and who the scientists are employed by. It's a shame that with the access to the amount of information we have, we have to be so careful as really nothing is positively accurate.

I have this book, while old and humorously written (in the sense you can visualize the author pulling out his hair) it gives some interesting thoughts on germ theory and brings to play a forgotten person: Antoine Bechamp.

The Dream & Lie of Louis Pasteur, Germ Theory by Tim O'Shea and The Curse of Louis Pasteur which one reviewer, Edward Darmohray, brought up an excellent point:
(I'm looking at you cancer.)


rant rant rant rant...

http://www.youtube.com/v/SXh7JR9oKVE?fs=1&hl=en_US

I'm definitely shopping at the wrong mall! This is a glorious piece of music, whether you celebrate Christmas or not. Would you expect a food court to contain such a wonderful surprise?

Pretty interesting who funded those studies.

Just another example of "He who has the gold, makes the rules" in my book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1eXbPtS3bU

This is a cartoon that I grew up with.

I don't remember this cartoon, but I'm not surprised. 1965. Quite a time to be a kid in the states, especially one who watched the news and read the newspapers. I hated 1968. I can barely watch old newsclips from those days, they make me physically sick. I can't tell you how many nights I cried myself to sleep over what was going on in the world. I never felt threatened, myself, although we grew up with all the civil defense drills and had a bomb shelter next door at my uncle's house. In those days, people had penpals, and between what I saw/read/heard in the news, letters from my penpals, and seeing boys come home from Vietnam in boxes that I had cheered for at the football games the preceeding season, it was a pretty distressing time for me.