For the record: 50 Top Inventions of 2010

The 50 Best Inventions of 2010 Flying cars! Jet packs! Lasers that zap malaria-carrying mosquitoes! Here are the year’s biggest (and coolest) breakthroughs in science, technology and the arts   iPad By Harry McCracken Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 How does Apple keep out-inventing the rest of the tech industry? Often, it’s by reinventing a product [...]

Imagine Peace Tower by Yoko Ono & Humanity’s Team Global Rhythym

Please send your wishes to Imagine Peace Tower. Who knows, they will come true. You can’t lose.  ~ Sandra   IMAGINE PEACE TOWER by Yoko Ono:           Happy Birthday John Lennon ~ peace be with you ~ from Humanity’s Team!    HUMANITY’S TEAM GLOBAL RHYTHYM CIRCLE Humanity’s Team Global Rhythm Circle For Oneness [...]

The Lechon: An Anti-Vegan Filipino Dish

After countless fiestas while growing up, some two years of being vegan, and despite wanting a potbelly pet someday, there’s just one image that neither makes me cringe nor drool.  I have been preparing for a potbelly pet by reading up lots on it, but maybe it’s the Filipino culture that when you say “Pig”, that’s [...]

Doses of Pop Cultural Celebration and Shocking Reasons for Celibacy (Madonna & Lady G.)

Love the 80′s.  There’s been no time like it. Strangely, the 2009 song, Celebration, for some reason summons 80′s memories! Which brings me to question how angsty the following generations, like what the fudge?! – is wrong with you guys?  These days, Lady G is 2nd most powerful musician in the world. Lady Gaga here isn’t singing [...]

Prohibitions vs. Drugs and Delusions

Had drugs been prohibited around the time of Moses (1391 BC onward), there most probably wouldn’t have been any of the 10 Commandments, a product of a psychedelic cocktail, according to an Israeli researcher.  That Moses was tripping on ayahuasca atop Mt. Sinai was not illicit during those times.  To this day ayahuasca is still used [...]

Sports Superstitions: Spain Protective Over Paul the Psychic Octo

  I was very much intrigued by this World Cup character, a “psychic” octopus called Paul!  And since it picked Spain as the fated winner, Germans started wishing him fried!   His kind was removed from a US restaurant menu, and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was ready to send some protection to Paul.   [...]

Pope Fashion: What’s it like to be in his shoes?

This is a raid of the papal closet.  I’m checking what’s inside.  If there’s anything infallible about the pope, really, it is that he will not sacrifice good taste.  Well, I’m impressed.  More of his shoes and clothes here

Voracious Appetites of Athletes: Football’s Fabio Cannavaro and Swimmer Michael Phelps

These men burn calories and eat as if preparing for the World War.  To give us an idea of the athlete appetite, here football centerback Fabio Cannavaro describes his diet:   While the news report that Michael Phelps consumes 12,000 calories a day, he claims just 8,000-10,000 calories: