Don’t let a power outage leave you powerless

Take a minute to think about your everyday activities. How many of them require electricity? Now imagine your daily life without power. You ...

Topknot Coil

(Click on the image for a larger version.) Source: The Hairdo Handbook, 1964, Chapter XVIII: Handling and Styling Long Hair

Checkpoints & Gauloises

Len Deighton, (blogs passim ) is eighty this week. Read an interview here . I discovered his books in 1965, three years after The Ipcress Fi...

French Twist

(Click on the image for a larger version.) Source: The Hairdo Handbook, 1964, Chapter XVIII: Handling and Styling Long Hair

Unexpected Alphabets No 8

Stamford didn't want the railway anywhere near it at first, but when they finally succumbed in 1848 its Tudor manor architecture became ...

Classic French Roll

(Click on the image for a larger version.)  Source: The Hairdo Handbook, 1964, Chapter XVIII: Handling and Styling Long Hair This is my new ...

Paleolithic Diet Clinical Trials Part III

I'm happy to say, it's time for a new installment of the "Paleolithic Diet Clinical Trials" series. The latest study was...

Young Shortie

(Click on the images for a larger version.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, July 1949

Minnesota clinic sets record for flu shots

Today's guest blog entry is by Tricia Todd, MPH, assistant director of the Health Careers Center at the University of Minnesota. Oct. 28...