2013: MY YEAR IN REVIEW

This is a blog site mostly about renewable energy and the environment to Save Planet Earth and Humanity.  However, the postings that attracted the most viewers had to do with entertainment, rainbows, scary animals, my travels/dining and OTEC.  Here are the top entries for 2013:RAINBOWS, KILAUEA VOLCANO AND GOLFTHE GREAT FLORIDA GIANT SNAKE HUNTTHE 60'S: GIRL GROOVESWORLD TOUR OF HOKULEA AND HIKIANALIAINTERNATIONAL OTEC SYMPOSIUM: Day...

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EMERGENCY ROOM: Part 3

I've now been treated by the Emergency Room of Queen's Hospital three times over the past thirteen months or so:26Nov2012:  swollen thumb 9 August2013:  fishbone in throatTODAY:  dislocated pinkyThis was trivial, almost embarrassing and a huge waste of time, but there were extenuating circumstances.  Simply, I tripped in a parking lot and used my left hand to cushion my fall.  There was an excruciating pain and my left...

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SHOULD YOU DRINK ALCOHOL?

Too much of anything can be fatal.  This certainly is true with ethanol (that's what a molecule looks like), the alcohol in your drink.  However, will a little bit of alcohol improve your health?There seems to be medical evidence that a moderate amount of alcohol:keeps your mind sharperlowers the risk of developing diabetesincreases your life expectancyreduces your risk of developing heart disease and gallstones andcan raise the level of...

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HOW TO BALANCE CHEMICAL EQUATIONS WITHOUT CHEMISTRY

Every so often I have a posting on something too scientific or mathematical for normal human minds.      In 1976, for example, I spent some time at NASA's Ames Research Center devising the "ideal" system for detecting earth-sized extrasolar planets for their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program.  Frankly, I thought my concept would be a thousand times cheaper and more direct than the transit and wobble approaches...

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A POSSIBLE SOLUTION FOR JELLYFISH

Ten days (plus or minus two days) after a full moon off Waikiki Beach, the box jellyfish (Alatina moseri--left) invades.  Over the past 173 full moons (14 years), a study indicates that 66,000 box jellies arrived across a 1310-foot section of this beach.  However, all the Leeward (south side of Oahu) beaches face this threat.  In fact, jellies can be found throughout the world, although there are different species.  In Australia,...

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TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH

The following news spots on your health seem worthy of mention:Apparently, if you are older than 60, the medical profession is on its way to declaring that if your blood pressure levels do not exceed 150 over 90, YOU MIGHT NOT NEED TO TAKE ANY PILLS FOR THIS CONDITION.  Seems that this medication can cause fainting and falling, which could well be worse than merely keeping your pressure lower.  Of course, don't just quit your medication...

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WHO INVENTED SANTA CLAUS?

I like to equate Santa Claus to God.  (This painting is available at Oil Painting Factory.)  Others have too.  Here is an almost too apologetic posting in the Huffington Post.  I go one step further by expressing bewilderment that, while we all once believed in Santa Claus, perhaps 90% of us (not me, but the world at large) continue to have faith in something called God.  Why have 10% of us (this includes me) come to a conclusion...

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