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Hack Your Brain

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Learning new things actually strengthens your brain — especially when you believe you can learn new things. It’s a virtuous circle: When you think you’re getting smarter, you study harder, making more nerve-cell connections, which in turn makes you ….

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May 4, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, Oddities, Psychology, science | Comments Off 

Crazy Survival Gear

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“The Cocoon is a short-term shelter made of durable insulating material that hangs off a tree (or any stable structure). In theory, getting the user off the ground seems safer, but it’s still pretty vulnerable. Sure, you wouldn’t be prey to wild animal…

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May 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Oddities | Comments Off 

Crazy Survival Gear

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“The Cocoon is a short-term shelter made of durable insulating material that hangs off a tree (or any stable structure). In theory, getting the user off the ground seems safer, but it’s still pretty vulnerable. Sure, you wouldn’t be prey to wild animal…

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May 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Oddities | Comments Off 

The Wondrous Story of Sand

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Composed of the remnants of volcanic explosions, eroded mountains, dead organisms and even degraded manmade structures, sand can reveal the history - both biological and geological - of a local environment. And examined closely enough, as the scientis…

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May 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Oddities, Photography | Comments Off 

Proud Pillar of Civilization

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Everyone loves the idea of the libraries: they are the “envy of the world”. The many endowed by Andrew Carnegie at the turn of the century have frequently been cited as the inspirational and practical source of both culture and education for many, and…

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April 30, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Commentary, Oddities, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Barbarian Barbie

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Iran’s top prosecutor has called for restrictions in the import of Western toys, saying they have a destructive effect on the country’s youth.Mr Najafabadi, a high-ranking cleric, said Iran was the world’s third biggest importer of toys, with many mor…

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April 28, 2008 | Filed Under , Isms, Oddities, Society | Comments Off 

Pregnancy, Pica & Pickles

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Mothers-to-be reported cravings for odd combinations of food, the most common being pickles and peanut butter, followed by marmite and ice cream. Other combinations mentioned included tuna and banana, and fried eggs with mint sauce.”"She said cravin…

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April 28, 2008 | Filed Under , Health, Oddities, Women | Comments Off 

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has unveiled his new cabinet, which for the first time includes more women than men.Nine of the ministers are women, and eight are men; when the prime minister is included, the cabinet is equally divi…

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April 12, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Isms, Oddities | Comments Off 

Soap Character Writes (and Publishes) Book

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Soap operas, of course, were created for the purpose of selling soap, so it is a reliable formula to use them to peddle products. Nowadays, however, instead of the shows’ being written to support the sponsors’ products, the products themselves are…

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April 9, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Oddities | Comments Off 

Maybe Brown Is the Predominant Haircolor!

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Researchers analysed the wives and girlfriends of the world’s top 100 richest men to see if there is a predominant hair colour that they go for. The majority are brunettes, with 62 per cent of billionaires favouring women with dark…

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April 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Oddities, Society, science | Comments Off 

Maybe Brown Is the Predominant Haircolor!

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Researchers analysed the wives and girlfriends of the world’s top 100 richest men to see if there is a predominant hair colour that they go for. The majority are brunettes, with 62 per cent of billionaires favouring women with dark…

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April 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Oddities, Society, science | Comments Off 

It’s Not Fair!

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

The Helsinki Complaints ChoirFinnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen collected the pet peeves and angst-ridden pleas of people in Helsinki and then composed this choral work around the list of complaints. Music composed by Esko G…

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April 6, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Dreamscape, Music, Oddities, Urbanities | Comments Off 


Madonna’s Blackberry Whine

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Perhaps becoming aware that this attempt to portray her bedtime routine as boringly normal may not strike a familiar chord with happily married people everywhere, Madonna tries to paint her CrackBerry habit as an essential aspect of Being Madonna: “I …

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April 3, 2008 | Filed Under , Music, Oddities, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Thinking Hard Is Free of Charge

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Your brain uses less power than your refrigerator light”The brain uses 12 watts of power, about the same amount of energy as in two large bananas. Curiously, even though the brain is very efficient, it’s an energy hog. It is only 3 per cent of the body…

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March 30, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Oddities, Psychology, science | Comments Off 

World Awaits End in Hole

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“More strife in Iraq. U.S. financial system in crisis. Rice prices soar. None of these headlines will matter a bit, though, if two men pursuing a lawsuit in a court in Hawaii turn out to be right. They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin…

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March 29, 2008 | Filed Under , Oddities, science | Comments Off 


Cult Awaits End In Cave

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Fresh talks are under way to persuade 28 doomsday cult members in Russia to end a five-month cave siege after seven sect women came to the surface. The women were allowed to leave with cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov after he was brought to the scene to n…

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March 29, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Oddities, Society | Comments Off 


Have You Seen It Yet?

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“To say that I am a patient man would be an understatement. Seventeen years sat watching and waiting on the shores of Loch Ness for one decent sighting of the monster has to be considered dedication in anybody’s eyes. To me, however, it is more a dream…

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March 24, 2008 | Filed Under , Dreamscape, Life, Oddities | Comments Off 

Break Took a Little Longer

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

A strange thing the flu is. The eeriest aspect of it was when the fever ran over 39 degrees and I ceased dreaming. I never realized that to cook up dreams, an optimum temperature is required. I didn’t dream for several days, while I slept or was in bed…

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March 22, 2008 | Filed Under , Dreamscape, Life, Oddities | Comments Off 


Lou Has Flu

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Hope to be back tomorrow…Art: Cat Scratch Fever, 1999, Rita Ackermann

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March 15, 2008 | Filed Under , Oddities | Comments Off 

Dolphin Rescues Whales

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

A dolphin has come to the rescue of two whales which had become stranded on a beach in New Zealand.The pygmy sperm whales had repeatedly beached, and both they and the humans were tired and set to give up (..).But then the dolphin appeared, communicate…

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March 12, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Oddities | Comments Off 


Wickedpedia

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“It was a boy meets girl story for the web 2.0 generation. But when it all turned sour the recriminations resounded through the blogosphere while the dirty laundry was put up for sale on eBay. She was Rachel Marsden, 33, the Canadian right-wing politi…

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March 4, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, Oddities | Comments Off 

Leap Year

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

45 B.C.: Roman dictator-for-life Julius Caesar, alarmed that the calendar is growing out of whack with the seasons, adds an extra day to the month of February every four years. Caesar was reforming a calendar based on 364 days, with an occasional extr…

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March 1, 2008 | Filed Under , Oddities | Comments Off 

Fun: the New Core Value

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Funsultants & Funcilitators”Any Genesis subscriber knows that hard toil was originally conceived as a curse. God broke the news to Adam that he’d be forced to stop lounging naked while snacking on fresh fruit—that meals would now be served by t…

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February 27, 2008 | Filed Under Oddities, Psychology, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Monkey Story

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Some 3,000 villagers have attended an elaborate Hindu wedding ceremony in eastern India for two monkeys.Women welcomed the groom with loud, synchronised ululations typical in a Hindu marriage while priests chanted sacred hymns. “It was a unique exper…

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February 26, 2008 | Filed Under Oddities | Comments Off 

Horsy Tip

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“As a widowed waitress struggling to make ends meet, A. D. Carrol has received some good tips over the years. Once in an airport V.I.P. club in San Francisco, stranded businessmen tipped her $600. In a Texas steak house, a happy patron left $500 on the…

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February 26, 2008 | Filed Under Oddities, Style | Comments Off 

Woman, 70, Holds Up Post Office

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Police are hunting an armed robber aged up to 70 years old who held up a post office in Manchester. The woman, believed to be …

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February 16, 2008 | Filed Under Oddities, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Going Dental

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Visit to the dentist’s office today, at 3.20 PM. Solace is, time will pass. It will be all behind me in a couple of hours. Moreover, it is only a check-up. And, I have an excuse to do absolutely NOTHING before ánd after, the entire day. Cleaning the m…

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February 13, 2008 | Filed Under Health, Life, Oddities | Comments Off 


Back to My Roots

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

In order to write my own commentary with some profundity ánd fun, I’ve come to the conclusion that I simply must resort to my mother tongue, which is Dutch. Therefor I have started another blog, Taalbank, to which I want to point Dutch (reading) visit…

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February 11, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Life, Oddities | Comments Off 

A Burqa For the Bishop, Please

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“The rules of our society have always been entirely clear: one law for all. The only challenge to that has come from those Muslims who want to destroy that foundational precept and along with it British culture and western society. And now the head of …

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February 8, 2008 | Filed Under Isms, Oddities | Comments Off 

Hail to the Bear!

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

A campaign has been launched to build a permanent memorial to a bear which spent much of its life in Scotland - after fighting in World War II. The bear - named Voytek - was adopted in the Middle East by Polish troops in 1943, becoming much more than…

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January 25, 2008 | Filed Under Life, Oddities | Comments Off 

Hail to the Pig!

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“A story based on the Three Little Pigs has been turned down from a government agency’s annual awards because the subject matter could offend Muslims.The digital book, re-telling the classic fairy tale, was rejected by judges who warned that “the use o…

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January 23, 2008 | Filed Under Isms, Oddities, Society | Comments Off 

Men’s EGG

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Wolf Hair & Bon Jovi23 November 2007, Forum Valentine (17) and Naniyo (19)”Our style is gyaru-o. It’s a male version of Japanese gal style. So-called wolf hair, rock-inspired clothes and wearing lots of jewellery are parts of gyaru-o style. We like…

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January 21, 2008 | Filed Under Men, Oddities, Style | Comments Off 

Freaky Observers

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“The Boltzmann brain problem arises from a string of logical conclusions that all spring from another deep and old question, namely why time seems to go in only one direction. Why can’t you unscramble an egg? The fundamental laws governing the atoms …

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January 19, 2008 | Filed Under Oddities, science | Comments Off 

The Rejection Letter

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Category: PublisherSubmitted by: Rejected once, but not twice. The Letter: Sorry, but you submission does not meet our standards and therefore not accepted. How did this letter make you feel? Being that this was my first book, I knew that I would be …

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January 11, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Laughs, Literature, Oddities | Comments Off 

Nothing Serious

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

In 2004 Justine Lévy (1974) published Rien de Grave, which swiftly bumped Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code out of the number one position with naked, urgent prose and a complicated tale about love angst and (fashionably late) coming-of-age. Prompty it got tr…

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January 7, 2008 | Filed Under Commentary, Literature, Oddities | Comments Off 

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