Chocolate. A friend travels to Paris every few years and brings me back the most fabulous chocolate. I don't have a specific recommendation for a shop but I know there are many!
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Dick Cheney’s cardiogist has an op-ed in the NYTI Was Dick Cheney’s Cardiologist. Trump Has Not Looked Well, and We Should Know Why..
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Barack's podcastThe books:
The podcast, A Great Book with Barack Obama, will see the former president sitting down with six “luminaries” to discuss the seminal novels. The book selections are: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré.
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Barack's podcastBarack Obama launches podcast about books that ‘shaped his worldview’
The former US president will host six episodes of A Great Book for Audible, discussing work from Toni Morrison and John le Carré to James Baldwin
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Avoiding dementiaHere’s an easy daily habit that may help to keep the brain sharp in old age: Listen to music. A new study found that older adults who consistently listened to music reduced their risk of developing dementia by nearly 40 percent.
The study, from researchers at Monash University in Australia, used data from more than 10,800 relatively healthy men and women aged 70 and older who were enrolled in a long-running study of aging and health. None had Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia at the start of the study period. Participants underwent annual medical exams and regular tests of thinking and memory skills. They were followed for about a decade.
The researchers found that study participants who said they listened to music on most days had a 39 percent lower risk of developing dementia than their peers who “never,” “rarely” or only “sometimes” listened to music. They also had a 17 percent lower incidence of general cognitive decline, as well as higher scores on tests of thinking and memory skills, including episodic memory, or the ability to recall everyday events.
Regularly playing a musical instrument, such as a piano or guitar, also appeared to have benefits for the brain. Those who played a musical instrument had a 33 percent reduced risk of dementia and a 22 percent reduced risk of cognitive impairment.
https://www.alzinfo.org/articles/research/listening-to-music-may-cut-dementia-risk/
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Avoiding dementiaTaxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain
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Happy birthday, Mik!Almost missed it. Kept thinking all day that 8/11 is a day with significance. And then it came to me!
Happy birthday to our resident Cincinnatian!
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House for sale@AndyD Nice! Reminded me of one of the projects that I saw on Grand Designs.
I also looked at this related listing:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/91462938#/?channel=RES_BUY
Both this one and the one you listed seem to have graveyards associated with them. Not sure how I'd feel about that. Lots of deep emotional energy stored in cemetery space.
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Speedy Weber's love lettersThis Box of 300 Love Letters Showed Up Out of the Blue. Who Was the Whimsical World War II Soldier Who Wrote Them?
Nobody knows who dropped Speedy Weber’s correspondence at a USO office in 2022. Researchers have finally tracked down two living relatives who remember him
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This could keep Mark busy for yearsHold on to your telescopes: the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly 4 billion celestial objects, primarily stars and galaxies. The data is available for all to use and publicly viewable through the Legacy Survey Sky Viewer.
@mark - Is your observatory still set up and being used?