However these female monkeys have been observed flossing their teeth using human hair in the same way that we humans floss our own teeth. furthermore, researches from Japan also noticed that the mothers spend double the amount of time flossing when they were being watched by their infants. This suggests that they were deliberately teaching their young how to floss.

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WOW.. This is really cool. monkeys can teach their young how to do things. What is even cooler is that they FLOSS. I mean how many humans floss?????

lets look at the facts from the US presidential elections that is currently going on. its a pretty close race between the candidates of the democratic and republican party, but should be it?

the following is from an email i received that really opened my eyes and made me think a bit.

Subject: What if things were switched around…..think about it.
Would the country’s collective point of view be different?

Could racism be the culprit?

Ponder the following:

What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?

What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?

What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?

What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?

What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?

What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?

What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)

What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

What if Obama couldn’t read from a teleprompter?

What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?

What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?

What if Michelle Obama’s family had made their money from beer distribution?

What if the Obamas had adopted a white child? You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

Educational Background:

Barack Obama:
Columbia University – B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware – B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

John McCain:
United States Naval Academy – Class rank: 894 of 899

Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester
North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study
University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 semester
University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in Journalism

Education isn’t everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the land as well as our standing in the e world. You make the call.

There has to be a reason that, in spite of the above, we are where we are today.
Of course, there is a generous dosage of country-wide stupidity too.

all I could think of was… wow… i had never though of it from this angle before.

my mum was a big fan of making salad dressings at home. the easiest being some spices and some fresh herbs mixed with some salt, vinegar and oil. the other day i decided to give it a try and guess what. it did not taste at all good. in fact all i was tasting was the oil and nothing else. i couldn’t for the life of me figure out what i was doing wrong… until i came across this little fact in my email

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“For maximum flavor in your homemade salad dressings mix the seasonings and herbs your using with vinegar before adding the oil, otherwise the oil will coat the herbs and traps the flavor”

well there you do, now you know and as the G.I Joe’s used to say.. knowing is half the battle i’m oing to have to try this sometime soon and see if it works!

so one of the problems that some people face when boiling water is getting distracted only to arrive back at the kitchen with the pot/kettle burn and my whole apartment filled with smoke. i have been lucky so far and its never happened to me (except when i was trying to steam something once and i put too little water in the steamer and ended up burning the bottom of the pan a bit). luckily i caught it in time and was able to stop a major disaster from happening.

here is a really easy way to alert you when you start getting close to the danger zone

“Put a few marbles into your double boiler/tea kettle/pot before putting it on the flame. This will warn you when the water has boiled away”

seems pretty easy. i should try this the next time i have to steam something

most of these come to me via email as forwards or as random facts that don’t belong to any traceable source so pardon the fact that they don’t have references. if i know the source of a particular fact i’ll include it in the posts. if you see a fact without a source and know the source let me know and i will definitely add it to the post.

“To aid in cleaning the inside of badly burnt pans, bring the outside of the pan into contact with cold water while the pan is still very hot”