Buttermilk Whipped Cream

I didn't know where to put this, just thought it was cool. Maybe I should add a recipe section? But for now I will put it under health and culture.[It does contain cultured milk ;-)]
Not too many people make real old fashioned whipped cream anymore because it can be so tricky to prepare and almost impossible to store. But for those of us who do prefer the real deal, these instructions will make the task so much easier.

"The Prize" epic quest for oil, money and power

I put this in the economics and political sections, because energy is really what drives power and money. Those who control it control everything.

Speech Recognition Technology Inventors Lost Everything

"James and Janet Baker were the inventors of 'Dragon Systems' speech recognition software, and after years of work, they created a multimillion dollar company. At the height of the tech boom, with investment offers rolling in, they turned to Goldman Sachs for financial advice."

For a five million dollar fee, Goldman hooked them up with Lernout Hauspie, the Belgium speech recognition company. After consultations with Goldman Sachs, the Bakers traded their company for $580 million in Lernout & Hauspie stock.

But it turned out Lernout Hauspie was involved in cooking their books and went bankrupt.

Dragon was sold in a bankruptcy auction to Scansoft, and the Bakers lost everything. Goldman and Sachs itself had decided against investing in Lernout Hauspie two years previous to this because they were lying about their Asian sales.

The Bakers are suing for one billion dollars." - Full Article Source

Presuppositional Apologetics-- Existence of God

I have just added a section on God's existence since I seem to have posted on this more than I thought I would.

This a protestant approach to the existence of God. It is called Presuppositional Apologetics. Pretty interesting. It takes some thinking. I don't agree that evidential proofs of God are useless but usually more helpful to believers.
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All About SWEET

Written by Pharmacist Ben Fuchs

Disciplining and controlling the human “sweet tooth” and subsequently  stabilizing blood sugar is one of the most important things a person can do to maintain good health.  Elevations in blood sugar and associated elevations in insulin are behind many, if not most of the health issues we confront today.  High blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and of course diabetes have clear associations to unstable blood sugar and blood insulin.  And while the connections to cancer, accelerated aging, osteoporosis, arthritis and autoimmune issues are less definitive, a case could certainly be made that the likelihood of confronting these health challenges (among others) would almost certainly be reduced by reducing sugar intake.  Now while it is important to recognize that simply fighting sugar cravings is a futile strategy.

 In other words will power is not a great weapon in the battle against sugar because the drive for sugar is built-in, it is hardwired into our brains from millions of years of evolution; and in the battle between hard wiring and will power, hard-wiring usually wins.

What we want to be able to do is understand the “habituation” mechanism.  “Taste anesthesia” must be confronted.  Our taste buds become numb to sweetness and gradually it takes more and more sweet for us to be satisfied.  And, there is some literature that suggests that even the sweet taste can raise blood sugar and insulin levels, even without sugar!

Dismantling the New Atheism

These videos don't answer the new atheism. I think they want you to get the book for that. But I thought it was interesting to get the psychological aspects of the new atheism.

Bob Newhart