Interesting links

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Narwhals help in global warming research

Once you get past the fatuous "magical creatures" cant, it's a very interesting little report, about how a climatology scientist has elicited the assistance of narwhals in the wild to measure the temperature rise in the Arctic.


Evidence that birth control pills prevent ovarian cancer

Solid evidence has finally surfaced that commonly-used birth control pills really do help in prevention. This could be real ammunition against the yahoos that want to outlaw contraceptive pills. Of course, they don't give a flying fuck about women's health, but the general public would be given pause. We can only hope.


Keep watching after this one for a report on the concerns of prescription drugs causing suicidal impulses. Most of the concern over the last decade has been with anti-depressants, but it turns out there are other drugs being studied as well - smoking cessation drugs, urinary incontinence, etc. I'm really hoping they'll look into Ambien as well, what with Heath Ledger's death looking like it had to do with that. (Not that he was suicidal, but I've been reading reports from people on the web about how the drug disorients the taker so much that he forgets he took the pill and takes more, and this can repeat until the taker is dead.)

Book recs

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rabidsamfan just posted a request for book recommendations. She asked for children's and YA books, and I posted a list. I thought other folks out here might be interested, so here is my list:


All of E.B. White
All of Edward Lear
The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden
All of the D'Aulaire books
Padddle-to-the-Sea, by Holling C. Holling
Dr. Seuss, of course
Takes from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb
Books by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Tejima's picture books
The Glass Slipper, by Eleanor Farjeon
The Pippi Longstocking books (These were a great inspiration to me as a girl growing up!)
Anything illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
The Good Master, The Singing Tree, and Philomena by Kate Seredy
A.A. Milne
J.M. Barrie
Bambi, by Felix Salten
L. Frank Baum
Mercer Mayer
Chris Van Allsburg
The Little Prince
The Ship's Cat, by Richard Adams
The Gnu and the Guru Go Behind the Beyond, by Peggy Clifford - a grand book!
The Sheep of the Lal Bagh, by David Mark
Faithful Elephants, by Yukio Tsuchiya - the best inoculation against war I've ever read
The Cookie Tree, by Jay Williams
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and the Jungle Books
All of Marguerite Henry
Edward Gorey - I loved morbid humor as a kid
Books by Roald Dahl - The Magic Finger really bent my brain, but not all his books are quite that weird; Fantastic Mr. Fox is lovely.
Blue Willow, by Doris Gates

and last but certainly not least:
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norman Juster


These are all books that I love dearly, and I think should be available to kids everywhere. Many of them are classics, as you can see, but some are out of the way and hard to find. But they're all gems. (I've included links so you can check out the lesser known ones.)


What kid's books do you have fond memories of?

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