Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Hand-Washing Detectors Coming Soon


By Jo Oliver


"Have you ever been at a hospital and wondered if the doctor, nurse, etc.. washed their hands between seeing you and the patient before you? Thanks to a new technology, we may now have an answer to that question. A hand hygiene sensor, developed by the University of Florida, can detect if the health care professional entering a patients room has washed their hands."

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Monday, October 12, 2009

Jobs For Pet Lovers



Many people are animal lovers, but we cannot all be veterinarians or zoo keepers. The animal and pet industry provide a great means for supplemental income and can also allow animal lovers a way to spend time with a variety of different animals. Find out about these interesting job options here by Jo Oliver.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Five Fish With Amazing Mouths

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The waterways of the world are filled with fascinating, frightening, and anomalous creatures. These five have amazing mouths.

The Alligator Gar is a fresh water fish that is native to North American. It is the largest of the gar species. Unlike other gar relatives, it has two rows of large teeth in the upper jaw. The alligator-like teeth and long snout easily explain the name. Amazingly, it can live for around two hours out of water. It is not odd for this fish to weight 200-300 pounds and grow to 8-10 ft in length. The Alligator Gar relies on ambush to kill prey. However, despite rumors of being a man killer, it is not an aggressive species by nature and prefers solitude. My husband caught a five ft Alligator Gar in Mississippi, and I can attest that the teeth and size make this one intimidating fish.

Now, read about the other four amazing fish at Triond: Five Fish With Amazing Mouths.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Bo Jack Russo: The Man, The Machine, The Writer

You know, I think that the reason that so many people in the world are so unhappy is because we forget about all the things that made us happy as children. As adults, we associate pleasure with money, fame and fortune. As children, we find pleasure in the simplest treat life hands us....like an ice cream cone on a smothering day. Our imagination is often lost to realities of paying bills, raising children, and finding personal "success." But, every once in awhile, there is a person that has never lost that child like imagination, and even better, has the ability to share their imagination with the rest of us. That said, I would like to introduce everyone to Bo Jack Russo:

The Potato People the Spaceship and the Conflict