Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Food today

50 best websites 2012
Game App based on food - one game I dont remember from where, where you make a cake from the selection of each ingredient can get boring after a while.
What have you undertaken recently that requires Agricultural time?
fruit and veggies linked to lower obesity rates in new state fat rankings - Yesterday during lunch, my husband served me half a carrot. I dont remember eating it but I did. and today finely chopped beetroot mixed into rice. All these accessories are chips replacement. 'Replacement' sounds scary. has there been a 'craving' in the making that we need to alter the substance but the addiction remains?
BPA Vs Obesity
food craving and mood
How to fend off a food craving
seperation anxiety in adults
can a kids toy bring more women into engineering
Knowing baby's genetics

Monday, September 17, 2012

Reading young

Books behaving badly a tale of real life in ink - When kids face inexplicable situations, how books help them make sense of it.

Shatter every window crash through every wall -Franz Kafka's work jump started a teenager.

Embracing then rejecting a life of melodrama - You are free to lose a strain and find another but can never leave 'reading'. I was presented this book by my colleagues when I started to US for MS. My own reading life started mainly in post high school. I did read few books in high school - Arabian tales, a book with a magic flying chair and stories from other students textbooks, some comics like Twinkle.

Whats wrong with reading

Teachers expectations can influence how students perform






We didnt mean to go to sea in Summer at Forsaken Lake.
Mystery of he fat cat in Cures for Hunger

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Becoming the god

I am into teen lit these days to see what books to present to my little relatives. An excerpt of The Raven boys. The writing style is a 'talking to yourself' style when you dont know too much of a thing, involving questions.
sex_selection_in_babies_through_pgd_americans_are_paying_to_have_daughters_rather_than_sons_.html. Until I read this, the killing of girl foetuses in India seemed to have cultural explanations. But after looking a the other coin of preferences for a baby child in US for most mothers, I can understand the issue in a more balanced way. at least this mother is not killing her boys and she is proactive about getting a baby of the sex she desires, way ahead of the game but it is all so breaking the conduit in the body and doe sit not take away the meaning of 'your' baby if the baby in the process had to undergo selections by humans in a lab.
Again law rears its head.



Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Kids and work

I didnt realise that having kids effects the time an employee works until I saw a coworker had a kid. I understand it after having my own. kids or no kids timesharing at the office

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Baby and reading

A new Peter Rabbit. My birdwatching mentor present me with a cup and bowl set of Peter Rabbit. I wasnt familiar with the story. Later she passed on cutouts of the characters from the story to be enacted sometime.
More books waiting to be read

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Medicine in daily life

The baby in What wretches have I been born to? wants anti-vax parents. But that would mean being exposed to old and dead diseases. Medicines have some side effects. And some have terrible main effects

Child switch

Not the kind where a child is switched by mistake.
Not like the famous story we read of Sunil Gavaskar. Before I got the name correct, first Sachin Tendulkar came to mind.
At one of the rides at Universal, I saw Child switch but that didnt register until my friend told me about it.

SIDS coupled with fear