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    The other side of the wave

    The other side of the wave

                The Underwater Project has produced this sweet video describing what it does and showcasing the talents of founder Mark Tipple. The 29-year-old Australian has something interesting here—people have photographed other people underwater for many years, but you haven’t seen them holding on as a 12-foot wave collapses above them....
    Our Super Bowl tribute to love and sex

    Our Super Bowl tribute to love and sex

                  About 30 percent of Baby Boomers are single, and many of you rely on internet dating sites to make connections (in fact seniors’ use of such sites is growing at twice the rate of other age groups). So it seems likely that you’ll be interested in Match.com’s annual...
    Can seniors run barefoot? Should they?

    Can seniors run barefoot? Should they?

              Running barefoot combines the joys of being naked (at least on your lowest extremities) and not paying for expensive footwear (although most of the major shoe companies have introduced poorly identified “five-finger” shoes, some of which cost $150 or more). And then there is this other joy: If you read...
    Sunday quote: December 11, 2011

    Sunday quote: December 11, 2011

                  “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” ~ Henry David Thoreau,...
    Sunday Quote: December 4, 2011

    Sunday Quote: December 4, 2011

                “Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.” ~ Cartoonist Bill Watterson Photo by Gwen and James Anderson, via Wikimedia Commons