Recent content by Monique

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

Great initiative! Any left-over books can also be marked with PF, registered with bookcrossing.com and left in public places "if you love your books, let them go" - The New York Times.

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...

I'm already bringing a bag of cold-hard cash, but their lawyers appear not to want it. I just googled "how to bribe a lawyer", but it didn't get me anything (other than the attention of the national security force, probably).

A week later: complete radio silence. No response to inquiry. Frustrated.

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...

Yes, because it's all I ever wanted. Now having experienced it I am seriously beginning to doubt a future, but then I'm faced with a lot of politics and legal stuff that is completely distracting me from the science. I'm feeling like dropping out, which I never could have imagined. I have no...

I fully agree.