July 23rd, 2007
There’s a popular belief about homeopathy and other folk cures that “It can’t hurt”. You might as well try it. Sadly that isn’t true as this case indicates. It seems that “A chewing gum company turned cold remedy manufacturer” was selling a homeopathic nasal spray that destroyed people’s sense of taste and smell.
For a long time, I didn’t know much about homeopathy, and just thought it was some sort of mild herbal medicine. Then one day while I was waiting for a prescription to be filled at my pharmacist’s I picked up a pamphlet advocating homeopathy and started reading. It very quickly became obvious that it was total quackery.
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July 23rd, 2007
Eastern Amberwing, Perithemis tenera, ♀
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2007-07-22
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July 22nd, 2007
Broad-winged Skipper, Poanes viator
Ridgewood Reservoir, 2007-07-14
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July 21st, 2007
Eastern Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa virginica
Ridgewood Reservoir, 2007-07-14
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July 20th, 2007
Common Tern, Sterna hirundo
2007-07-06
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July 20th, 2007
I was reading Digital Photography: The Missing Manual this morning, and it kept talking about all these cool photo retouching features I’d never noticed. I opened up Phtooshop Elements to try them out, and they weren’t there! Then it occurred to me that perhaps it was time to upgrade my ten year old copy of Photoshop Elements 2 for Mac OS 9.
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