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Wilders... he likes to kick the box. In response to his statements the Dutch Moroccans twittered with the hashtag #bornhere, showing their Dutch passport.

That's amazing, isn't it? I recently heard about it as well, butterflies are beautiful examples as well.

You might be interested in this book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/9063693451/?tag=pfamazon01-20. It gives an overview of the concept.

What an amazing book. I always have a hard time finishing a book, usually I stop reading after a few chapters, but this one kept me reading. It's interesting from a human standpoint, to know what people with psychiatric problems go through and to realize that what we often consider to be "mental...

Thanks for the advice, the woman I bought if from said it was in her family for a long time and with an aching heart she had to get rid of it (husband thought it didn't fit with the furniture). I'm not expecting it to be fine furniture, even though I like the construction and details. The table...

Today I bought this really cute little antique table made out of solid wood. The top however is in poor condition, the finish is worn through in many places. The rest of the table is fine, what is the best way to fix it up? I don't want to refinish the whole thing, I like to keep the original...

Thanks all, your replies helped me find the title: "Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness" by Susannah Cahalan .

About a year ago I saw a book lying in the bookstore written by a female describing her experience of going through mental illness. From one day to the next she went into psychosis and had to be hospitalized. The story intrigued me (how the mind can distort reality), but I didn't buy the book at...

The discovery is published today in Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13962.html The shell was found in Trinil (Java, Indonesia). The abstract:

Amazing, a piece of creative expression... between 540,000 and 430,000 years old... made by Homo erectus. "The engraving was probably made on a fresh shell specimen still retaining its brown [skin], which would have produced a striking pattern of white lines on a dark ‘canvas'" World’s Oldest...

Watson is selling his Nobel Prize, to buy a painting (or was it to get attention?).

Gee, where do you get the time? My alarm goes at 6:50 and at 7:10 I'm out the door. I don't wake up until 8:00.

Thanks for the explanation, I looked up how that's distributed in the Netherlands (for comparison): 8% of healthcare is financed through the government, 38% through basic insurance fees, 9% through extended insurance fees and 39% through employer contributions. Still hard to compare with your...

Does that mean that Greg actually should be paying more to the insurance plan? Why does it work in other countries, but not the USA?

Why would physicians or hospitals reject coverage? They don't make enough profit from the plan?