Cayman Islands Seventh Day Adventist Church announces Cayman Islands Conference 2015
GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS “The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: ‘Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you.” (Jer. 31:3 NKJV) CONFERENCE ANNUAL MEETING The Cayman Islands Conference of…
A living masterpiece [Chatsworth House]
From Yorkshire Post If you had more than 100 acres of land, what would you do with it? Build houses and retire to the Caribbean – or grow a garden? You could pack a lot of properties into that sort…
How beer created civilization
By Dina Spector From Business Insider What led early humans to begin cultivating grain some 10,000 years ago? It was beer — not bread — a growing body of research shows. Archaeologists have long hinted that Neolithic, or Stone Age,…
Valve on kids’ medicine bottles could prevent overdose deaths, but costs money
By Kate Cox From Consumerist Valve on kids’ medicine bottles could prevent overdose deaths, but costs money to install so never mind Acetaminophen, best known under the brand name Tylenol, is an incredibly common medication for children. While it’s safe…
How the original iPhone forced Google to completely rebuild Android
By Chris Smith From BGR The day Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPhone model (January 9th, 2007,) Google’s Android team, which had been secretly working on a smartphone for two years, took a “kick in the stomach,” The Atlantic revealed….
World’s smallest pacemaker can be implanted without surgery
Susan Young for MIT Technology Review From Mashable Pacemaker surgery typically requires a doctor to make an incision above a patient’s heart, dig a cavity into which they can implant the heartbeat-regulating device, and then connect the pulse generator to…
Jacksonville doctors take medical mission trip to Jamaica: ‘Big smiles, so much gratitude’
By Beth Reese Cravey From Jacksonville.com Jacksonville surgeon Kenneth Jones had help from high-placed friends in the Caribbean and at home when he decided to stage a medical mission trip to a poor, rural area of Jamaica. For two…
Research indicates fungus could control mosquitoes
From Caribbean360 SWANSEA, Wales,– A team of researchers at Swansea University’s department of bioscience says a fungus could be the key to controlling mosquitoes and initial trials have been very promising. The fungus Metarhizium anisopliae kills a wide range of…
Serious Entertaining: Grilled cheese roll-ups for a crowd
By J. Kenji Lopez-Alt From Serious Eats [Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] I’m not going to try to pretend to take credit for this genius idea—I saw it late the other night during my daily pre-bedtime bath (not to be confused…
North Carolina abortion ultrasound rule violates first amendment, court says
By Mike Sacks, From The National Law Journal A federal appeals court Monday struck down a key provision of North Carolina’s abortion regulations as a violation of doctors’ First Amendment right to free speech. “Abortion may well be a special…