First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported.

I think I know what happened. The sheep had learned that their favou...

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A friend sends a link to AirlineMeals. I find the site extremely confusing, hard to get into, and not very satisfying. Rather like airline food. But others clearly like it a lot.

29 March 2018: I think it may have changed a bit since 2005.

The golden rice story is becoming tiresome. Given an acceptable standard of living, Vitamin A can be obtained simply from consumers own vegetables. The quantity of Golden Rice necessary for a child to ingest to gain the daily Vitamin requirement would feed the entire family.

The WHO report...

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How I hate travelling west to east. I've done everything I can -- stayed up late, taken my melatonin -- and still here I am awake at an ungodly hour. Falling asleep is not the problem. I'm ready to nap any time. Staying asleep is the difficulty. Perhaps an hour surfing is what I need. But then it...

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Just back from a long holiday trip to Vancouver (about which more may follow). That flight arrived at Heathrow right on time. The onward leg to Rome was delayed about 90 minutes. And then, as our 'snack', BA offered up an overweight, but heavy and more than somewhat chewy, bridge roll, topped with s...

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