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1. Hmmm...interesting:

North Carolina Republican Calls it Quits with GOP, Joins Democratic Party. Now if everyone else in the country would make the same decision, all would be well.

Can't say I blame him. Just don't understand why more people aren't jumping ship? Because if they did, maybe Trump would slither back under whatever rock he had crawled out from under. I preferred it when he was busy with the Celebrity Apprentice and Miss America. Damn, NBC for canceling. That kept him busy. And easy to ignore. Now he's everwhere - in the book store, on the television, in the newspapers,on the internet, it's getting harder and harder to ignore the idiot.

2. Celiac disease, and, more generally, gluten intolerance, is a growing problem worldwide, but especially in North America and Europe, where an estimated 5% of the population now suffers from it. Symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, skin rashes, macrocytic anemia and depression. It is a multifactorial disease associated with numerous nutritional deficiencies as well as reproductive issues and increased risk to thyroid disease, kidney failure and cancer. Here, we propose that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide, RoundupĀ®, is the most important causal factor in this epidemic.

Weird. Except I think I had this since I was a child, so not really sure what fish have to do with it.

3. The Wonderbag as a Slow Cooker

4. This Tree Beautifully Reveals the Relationships Between Languages



Click at the link above to get a poster of it.

And go here for Nordic Languages Chart

Date: 2016-02-23 10:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] paratti.livejournal.com
Sauna and Stabbitiness?

Date: 2016-02-24 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shadowkat67.livejournal.com
Not to mention IKEA, Swedish meatballs, Swedish furniture, and oh, Girl with the Dragon Tatoo...although not really lingual influences.

Date: 2016-02-24 06:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com
Well, we learned to blame the Finns for that, at least. :) In terms of language, though, there's very little influence on Swedish from Finnish - we had them for 700 years, and in all that time borrowed maybe a couple of dozen words. Which should tell you something about how easy Finnish is. (They have 15 noun cases. Fifteen. Saatana perkele. Even the Germans get along with four.)

Date: 2016-02-24 07:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] paratti.livejournal.com
We're still boggling at the languages which gender objects.

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