Category Archives: Austin
Fight cancer with unripe fruit.
Eat your greens to fight cancer. By that I mean green bananas. Put the veggies aside for now and gobble an unripe banana with that too firm, overly starchy feeling it leaves in your mouth. That starch...
Aug 12, 2022 Paul Bischoff / CC
Wild elephant gets CPR. Vid of vet jumping on on elephant's chest to save her.
Do you know how to give an elephant CPR? It takes a lot of jumping up and down on its chest. I'm not trying to be funny. That's exactly how a mother elephant's life was saved in Thailand. A baby eleph...
Aug 12, 2022 James Mostert / CC
Collection of interesting (weird) stuff left in library books. Vid in blog.
People leave a lot of weird things in books before returning the to the library. They also leave some interesting things. A librarian in Oakland has gathered a collection of such items to create the "...
Aug 12, 2022 Albuquerque South Broadway Cultural Center / CC
Pizza toppings in a bowl??? It's a thing now. Vid in blog.
There are instances where throwing a bunch of stuff in a bowl at a restaurant works. A Poke Bowl is basically sushi unrolled. And it's still yummy. KFC's Famous Bowl is a delicious mix of literally th...
Aug 10, 2022 Kurman Communications, Inc. / CC
Woman buys 1 home, gets 84 more for free.
I can't say this enough. Always proof read documents. It'd blow your mind how many legal and business documents I've seen that people wrote and filled with ungodly amounts of spelling and grammar erro...
Aug 10, 2022 Tierra Mallorca / Unsplash
Olivia, my first crush. Link to donate to her cancer research foundation in blog.
I remember a babysitter bringing a copy of the "Grease" album over to listen to while she was watching over me. That was my first exposure to Olivia Newton John. The babysitter crooning along with "Ho...
Aug 09, 2022 Dunk 🐝
U.S. Clothing company busted for replacing Made In China tags with Made In America tags.
Just a heads up. If you like to buy products made in the USA, do NOT buy clothing from Lions Not Sheep out of Utah. This company, which has marketed itself as a steadfast supporter of American product...
Aug 09, 2022 Shari Sirotnak / Unsplash
Lincoln man's invention heading to space station.
NASA is looking at taking a tiny robot developed in Lincoln into space. The robot is called MIRA, short for miniaturized in vivo robotic assistance. It's a small robot that can be used for surgery in ...
Aug 09, 2022 NASA on The Commons
Social app keeps people from posting highlights or set up pics. "Be Real".
I heard about a a social app that I really like the idea of. It's called the "Be Real" app. I like it because it doesn't let people set up situations and the pictures to look perfect. It sends a notif...
Aug 08, 2022 Yasha Sekhavat / CC
Mayans used human remains to make rubber balls for sports.
What are you going to have done with your body when you pass? Cremation? Burial? Get it turned into a rubber ball? I don't even know how that's possible, but apparently the ancient Mayans used to turn...
Aug 08, 2022 Lenore Edman / CC