06/10/2012
Posted by thetickthatbitme in Choline Diet, Reblogs.Tags: Borrelia, choline, diet, Lyme, medicine, nutrition, pregnancy, tick-borne
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Great post about the importance of choline intake during pregnacy.
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04/26/2012
Posted by thetickthatbitme in Reblogs.Tags: Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings (Perennial Classics), Literature, Mark Twain, microbes, nature
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Viral Pandas, a very interesting blog about the human-animal-internet connection, has a great post up today with an excerpt from Mark Twain’s “Letters from the Earth” concerning microbes and the story of Noah and the ark.
We’ve been considering the romanticised view of nature that is often portrayed online – dramatic skylines, beaming sunsets, perfectly sculpted silhouettes, and animals as well as humans placed majestically in the centre, airbrushed and beautified. Worms, bugs, and mites do not seem to exist often in this cyborg world; rarely acknowledged, spoken of, shared or liked.
We appreciate beauty, we understand.
But still, we were quite taken with this eloquent quote from Mark Twain’s ‘Letters from the Earth’; a poetic, beautifully written description of the very thing that usually makes us squirm.
Perhaps it still does, just a little, but we’ve taken it as inspiration for the opposite of our domesticated head – the ‘Wild Man’ (coming soon!).
Mark Twain
“Noah and his family were saved — if that could be called an advantage. I throw in the if for the reason that there has never been an intelligent person…
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