Are Diet Smoothies Even Possible?

Source: Fitness and Nutrition Center

According to Wikipedia, a diet is defined as “the sum of the food consumed by and organism or a group.” And dieting means “the deliberate selection of food to control body weight or nutrient intake.” Taking that into consideration, how would you like to ...
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Mike's Blog Round Up

Source: Crooks and Liars

Bernard: But surely the citizens of a democracy have a right to know. Sir Humphrey Appleby: No. They have a right to be ignorant. Knowledge only means complicity in guilt; ignorance has a certain dignity. – From Yes, Minister , togethe ...
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Summer Grilling Tips From Top Chefs

Source: Forbes

Grilling a delicious steak is not difficult, but these tips can help the backyard cook do an even better job. Photo: Wikipedia For the next five months or so, backyards across America will be filled with the smell of smoke, th ...
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Vampires, vampires, everywhere…

Source: Patheos Blogs

[1]Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula was published on this day in 1897. While vampires had long been part of the cultural matrix. and there were even novels in the nineteenth century before Stoker, it is Stoker who brought it into ...
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Weekend Special: A Puzzle: Why Aren't They Laughing?

Source: NPR

OK, I'm going to show you a video. It made me laugh so hard, my face hurt. But as I watched, I had this odd sense that there was something strange about it, but I couldn't figure out what. So go ahead and take a look. But first, t ...
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Monopoly game madness

Source: Hacker News

Monopolies, whether created by the state or created by the market, can be problematic for open source, and as technology moves forward, new spaces to monopolise are always appearing. Glyn Moody looks at how the authoriti ...
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Star of 'Mrs. Eastwood & Company' stays focused on the music

Source: Los Angeles Times

Francesca Eastwood is slouched sideways in a chair, her bare feet hanging over the seat's arm. As the 19-year-old toils on her phone — going through old photos and reading about slavery on Wikipedia — she maintains conversation with ha ...
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Which Way To Ramgarh?

Source: Outlook India

But even the less insubstantial films—the mileposts, the main body of Hindi cinema—exhibit a troubled relation with place, a strange detachment, a hovering over, almost as if wary of putting down roots and be ...
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Hacker group Anonymous hits Indian govt, claims Twitter hit

Source: Hindustan Times

The Xperia S is the first phone from the now single Sony ever since it acquired Ericsson stake in the company. You can tell from the spec sheet that Sony decided to start off with a bang and the Xperia S comes load ...
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