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To fight peanut allergy, it's better to eat peanuts than avoid them
Los Angeles Times - By Karen Kaplan
It seemed like a good idea at the time: With the incidence of peanut allergy climbing among children, the American Academy of Pediatrics advised parents in 2000 to keep peanuts far away from infants and
Drone warfare: life on the new frontline
The Guardian - Chris Woods
Safely ensconced behind flickering computer screens, military personnel are waging war in lands thousands of miles away. But is there a hidden human cost to remote-controlled combat? Just a three-hour
Four cups of coffee a day could save you from skin cancer
The Telegraph - By Franky Kentish
Wake up and smell the coffee - it may be protecting you from cancer Coffee lovers may be on to something. Aside from a necessary aid to wake up in the morning, a new study published in theJournal of the
University of Oxford
How to curb hunger pangs with your mind
BBC Future - David Robson
There may be a simple way to lose weight using only the power of thought. You just have to know how, says David Robson. Eric Robinson has a surprising tool for weight loss. It’s something we all have,
Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 01.09.15
orvis.com - Author Phil Monahan
Welcome to our latest edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos …
Fly Fishing In January
troutsflyfishing.com
In the world of a fly-fisher, January can be an interesting month. Yes indeed, the first month of the year brings many firsts to the angler. The …
Fly Fishing Basics: Step 1
fishingtips101.com - ByDavid ArcheronAugust 7, 2007 1:53 PM
Identification and Function of Equipment Rainbow Trout Selecting a Rod for a Beginner Fly fishing rods start with the reel seat where the reel is …
Ed Engle: January is outdoor show time
dailycamera.com
If you go What: Fly Fishing Show When: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday; 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday Where: Denver Mart, 451 East …
How To Travel Like A Pro
Refinery29 - Madeline Buxton
Apps can often prove unnecessary (how many ones for creating a to-do list do you really need?), but one area where they tend to excel is travel. There …
American liberalism loses its poet
POLITICO - By TODD S. PURDUM
Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo dies at 82. He was, in his day, the poet laureate of American liberalism, the Democratic Party’s most passionate defender of the underdog and its most articulate critic
Most cancer types 'just bad luck'
BBC News - By James Gallagher
Most types of cancer can be put down to bad luck rather than risk factors such as smoking, a study has suggested. A US team were trying to explain why some tissues were millions of times more vulnerable
Critical Perspectives on Waluigi
wordpress.com - Author: acrobat83
Nintendo have declared 2013 to be the year of Luigi – “Super” Mario’s taller, greener brother. What better time then to take a critical gaze at this …
The First Step
unwinnable.com - Brian Crimmins
Subscribe! The following is a reprint from Unwinnable Weekly Issue Twenty-Five. If you enjoy what you read, please consider purchasing the issue or …
2014 in review: the worst depictions of women in gaming this year
Polygon - DanielleRiendeau
The industry made a tiny little half-step in the right direction where the representation of women was concerned in 2014. There were a few great woman protagonists (like Amanda Ripley from Alien: Isolation)
Romina Ressia - How would have been? Part II | LensCulture
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Trekking
Eric Hodges - Peru 2013 | LensCulture
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Project info While most people that travel to Peru go to Machu Picchu, I traveled to the high mountains of Northern Peru. This was a difficult 30 day trip of trekking and climbing. The vast majority of
Ricardo Irak - Legacy | LensCulture
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Denis Roussel - From Composting to Recycling | LensCulture
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Jane Long - Dancing with Costica | LensCulture
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Project info The Dancing with Costica series initially came about when I decided to brush up on my retouching skills. After finding the Costica Acsinte Archive on Flickr I became fascinated with the images
Julie de Waroquier - Doppelgänger | LensCulture
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Project info The “imaginary friend” syndrome is an overactive imagination disorder. It consists in creating a reassuring mental companion in order to cope with a troubling situation. This friend is a projection
Hayato Wakabayashi - VANISHING | LensCulture
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Project info Primordial force create this earth in antiquity. It is mighty force that we can not imagine ,boisterous force,and indifference to human.The force pull apart place we live in from continental
Massimiliano Pugliese - Getting lost is wonderful | LensCulture
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Project info Obscurity as descent, inner journey in territories and mysterious dimensions, where darkness prevails, gloomy over wasteland almost unknown dense of glacial atmospheres. The photographer Pugliese
Alberto Sinigaglia - BIG SKY HUNTING | LensCulture
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Project info Big Sky Hunting is a photographic project which starting from the astronomical depiction investigates the potentialities and the limits of the photographic medium and of the representation.
Learning the Code
home-school.com
By Frank Armbruster Printed in Practical Homeschooling #77, 2007. The first problem with reading is that in English there are 26 letters (graphemes) in …