Plato imagined that there existed an ideal or perfect world beyond our own physical earth.
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Whole grains seem to have better disease fighting properties when compared to whole wheat. Grains like spelts, amaranth, and quinoa are not only delicious but offer immune system boosting properties too. Thus, health food nuts are leaning toward more grains over wheat products these days. Whole grain products like rice, pasta, and bread goods are [...]
The famed actress Alicia Silverstone certainly isn’t clueless about vegetarian dieting and she is now authoring a book that clearly suggests her animal activist background. The Kind Diet is a vegan cookbook that is set for release in 2009 in the fall and will present readers with a three step dieting program which concentrates on [...]
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Following up to the post about Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, here is another post about Roman history. This time from Elizabeth Rathgeber, who also wrote the post What to do about Sudan?.
I believe that Augustus and Niccoló Machiavelli would certainly agree much more so than disagree on how to be an effective ruler. The young Augustus [...]
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I learned a few weeks back that I was featured in the new book, Online Marketing Heroes. I actually didn’t see a copy of the book until I was speaking at SXSW. I have been trying to control my ego a bit after reading Eckhart Tolle, but I have to confess to liking the sight [...]
After spending over a decade as a foreign corespondent for National Public Radio, Eric Weiner took on the task of finding out where people are happiest, and more importantly, why. So Eric spent months studying the people in 10 different countries of varying degrees of happiness. The end results is an incredibly interesting book not [...]
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I watch two political shows daily. The first of course is The Daily Show with John Stewart, where I find the coverage to be more fair and balanced than Fox News. And I watch Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. Olbermann, for those who do not know, is a liberal nightmare for the Bush administration, [...]
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Worked on blog, now time for bed.
Ed Shull, January 5th 4:26pm
Google is pretty useless when looking for a doctor.
Ed Shull, January 4th 6:47am
Working on my blog.
Ed Shull, January 3rd 5:46am
Late dinner at Hard Rock Cafe.
Ed Shull, January 2nd 3:21pm
Watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Ed Shull, January 2nd 11:32am
