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U.S. visitor to Cuba begs to be arrested, but no dice

This from MSNBC:

A U.S. citizen trying to challenge the ban on travel to Cuba on Friday bemoaned his inability to get arrested or cited — even after having his passport stamped in Havana and bringing back Cuban memorabilia.

And why is it, again, that we have an official ban on travel to Cuba? Are we afraid that we’ll be attacked by Cuba? I know that we’re edging toward easing up on that travel, but why not just get rid of the ban.

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Avoid Swine Flu, the Science-Guy way!

Swine flu has captured the attention of the nation, including calls from European health officials to restrict travel to the US.

It’s all rather overblown, because almost everyone* has the ability to avoid the flu and it’s symptoms. Just follow the directions in the video, courtesy of Bill Nye, the Science Guy!

* the exception is immune-compromised individuals.

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The Wild Horses of Assateague

I took a two-day trip to Assateague Island recently. For those of you that don’t know, wild horses live on the island. Once a year they are rounded up and the yearlings are auctioned off to raise money for the nature preserve there and to keep their numbers in check. As we were sightseeing around [...]

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The average item of food travels 1,500 miles to your plate

How can your average item of food travel 1,500 miles to your plate?  Cheap oil, that’s how.  But be careful how you count the carbon generated by the delivery of your food.
The amount of “oil in our food” suggests that we will be eating a lot more local food, rather sooner than later.

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Peru claims Yale is hoarding Machu Picchu artifacts

Peru claims Yale is hoarding Machu Picchu artifacts

In a Reuters article, Peru is claiming that
Yale University researchers took more than 40,000 artifacts from the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu in the early 1900s, or 10 times the original estimate, the state news agency reported on Sunday.
That’s quite a load of artifacts, far more than the 5,000 Yale once claimed [...]

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Visiting Vienna

I was visiting a friend of mine in Vienna for the Easter holidays. Here are two things I did which I liked a lot - visiting the Karlskirche (St. Charles’s Church) and the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Art History). If you ever go to Vienna I recommend that you explore them, too (the Arcimboldo exhibition [...]

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Museums, Train Territory and Oil in Chicago

Museums, Train Territory and Oil in Chicago

My family and I just returned from a wonderful trip to Chicago. My wife and I have two daughters, aged 6 and 8.  All of us learned many new things at Chicago’s spectacular museums.  For instance, the Field Museum
       
has a terrific exhibit, called Evolving Planet, which examines the evolution of life forms on Earth [...]