The Vinyl Experience – 12.23.16

VE 313 12/23/16 Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Jerusalem Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky, Marche From The Nutcracker Duke Ellington Orchestra: Arabesque Cookie Beatles: Penny Lane, Christmas Time Is Here Again Burl Ives: Silver And Gold Captain Kangaroo: I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas REM: Deck The Halls Bing Crosby: Good King Wenceslas Bill Withers: The Gift Of Giving Jeff Beck: Greensleeves …

Laughs, cries and deception: birds’ emotional lives are just as complicated as ours

July on the Northern Tableland, near Armidale in New South Wales, is usually the beginning of the breeding season and field observations start early. I sat and watched in freezing temperatures. The sun was just rising above the horizon of this 1000m-high plateau when through binoculars I saw a young lone magpie, walking gingerly, literally tip-toeing, occasionally interrupted by little …

The Gary Null Show – 12.19.16

Today on The Gary Null Show, Gary discusses during his health and healing segment sauna bathing for dimensia, detixification. constrective vs destructive choices. Gary Null goes into a in depth commentary on fake news. During the second part of the program Gary gives advice on why you shouldn’t feel so stressed during this holiday season. Gary ends up the program with a long intensive audio clip on the news.

Adam Fisher – The Blind Spots of Liberalism

I grew up in what could be called the California Appalachians. My town’s population was around a thousand, with a median household income of $37,000. The local public school consisted of a series of air-conditioned, double-wide trailers that served as classrooms for combined grades (first and second in one, third and fourth in another, and so on). The only permanent building …

Amish Asthma Rates Offer Clues to Preventing Mental Illness

About 20 miles southeast of South Bend, Indiana, straddling US highway 6, lies the farming village of Nappanee, population 6,692. The town has the distinction of being the only municipality in the United States with a name in which each letter is repeated once. Nappanee is also known as the “southern gateway to Indiana Amish country.” A few miles north of the …

Kirsten Brodde – Black Friday: Breathe, take a break – the planet can’t handle it anymore

Instead of chasing prey in the jungle like our ancestors did, we chase bargain clothing that seems like a good deal. Just look at the scenes that take place every year in American shopping malls on the fourth Friday of November, when people try to secure a favourable position in the queue outside shops in the early hours of the …