Help the hungry, improve preparedness without leaving your doorstop on Stamp Out Hunger Day

On your way home from work today, take some time to stop at the grocery store and pick up a few extra items for those in need. You'll he...

Get Ready Mailbag: Swine flu

Welcome to another installment of the Get Ready Mailbag, when we take time to answer questions sent our way by readers like you. Have a ques...

Dihydro-Vitamin K1

Step right up ladies and gents; I have a new miracle vitamin for you. Totally unknown to our ignorant pre-industrial ancestors, it's ca...

Link: Retro Hairstyles for Dummies

Once again, another great link: Retro Hairstyles for Dummies I love that Sari has the updos from the Hairdo Handbook that we have here, but...

Clumber Lumber

Clumber Park is an ex-Ducal estate of 3,800 acres south east of Worksop in Nottinghamshire. The grand Palladian house, begun in 1760, has go...

Find The Fault No 11

Apart from reminding me of that old joke that ends with a newspaper headline "Nut Screws Washers & Bolts", there's not a l...

Pastured Eggs

Eggs are an exceptionally nutritious food. It's not surprising, considering they contain everything necessary to build a chick! But al...

Iodine

Iodine is an essential trace mineral. It's required for the formation of activated thyroid hormones T3 and T4. The amount of thyroid h...

Feather Halo

(Click on the image to open a larger version in a new window.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, June 1942