How Everyday Behaviors Can Produce Clean Energy

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/146/supertiny-power-plants.html

Fascinating!

We Can Heal What We Have Destroyed

From TED

Talk & Photography by Brian Skerry

This 16 minute talk by underwater photographer Brian Skerry doesn't really present new information.  It does present a visually graphic reminder of the problems man has caused in the oceans of the world.  I like that he ends on a hopeful note.  We can change the way we use our natural resources.

Ralph Macchio Still Looks Great

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Macchio

He's also pretty funny!
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c8ad4aa802/wax-on-f-ck-off-with-ralph-macchio

Stay cool, Pony Boy!

Sempstress Is A Synonym of Seamstress

The Sempstress by Richard Redgrave

Definitions of sempstress on the Web:

• dressmaker: someone who makes or mends dresses
  wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
• A seamstress, a woman employed to sew
  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sempstress

*I don't remember where I read this!

Teddy Roosevelt's Mother & Wife Died On the Same Day

His mother died of typhoid while his first wife, Alice, died of Bright's Disease and childbirth complications.  It was Valentine's Day 1884.

*More from the enjoyable & very well written book I am reading.

Anderson Cooper is Gloria Vanderbilt's Son

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Vanderbilt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Cooper

*My mom told me he was the son of  "someone famous"  a long time ago.  I finally got around to looking it up!

An Ounce of Gold Can Be Stretched Into a Strand 35 Miles Long

Learn more about gold!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold

*From a program on the History Channel.