How to poison your children with common household materials

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So you’ve gone through pregnancy without drinking or smoking. You’ve taken your vitamins, gotten adequate sleep, regular exercise. Everything you can do to ensure your little one comes out in the best shape possible. And once it comes out, you breast-feed the little bunch of love, ensuring it has the best possible protection against diseases and is generally well-equipped to handle life outside of your belly.

But, says the concerned modern parent, how will my child ever become a normal, common kid like the others at school, with their allergies, with their wheezing asthma? Won’t she be singled out as a freak?

Worry not, fretful breeder. The easy answer lies not further than the corner Pharmaprix. A British study states the obvious – or at least something …
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Sins 2.0 : Welcome to the Social – Seven New Sins

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So for all those people that thought they were a-o-k, what with all that generosity and humility and being nice to people, the Vatican has news for you. You ain’t out of the woods yet, pilgrim. Pearly gates will seem like a cruel irony if you forgot to look up the new Seven Social Sins. Notice how the Sins 2.0 are not deadly anymore. Yeah, everybody kinda has it clear that Envy’s not gonna kill you. Okay maybe Sloth, but it takes along time. So what’s the new stuff that’s gonna make you feel extra crappy about just being human and not allowed in Heaven?

Well here they are, the Seven Social Sins.

1. “Bioethical” violations such as birth control

2. “Morally dubious” experiments such as stem cell …
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De quoi ça a l’air une espèce disparue ?

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goldenfrog.gif Voici le Crapaud doré, ou crapaud de Monteverde. Il a été vu pour la dernière fois dans la nature en 1989. En 2004, après avoir abandonné l’espoir d’en retrouver, l’Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la Nature a déclaré l’espèce éteinte.

La prochaine fois que vous passez à l’épicerie et qu’on vous donne un sac de plastique, ayez une petite pensée pour un crapaud qui vivait sur Terre quand vous êtes nés.

Plus d’infos : Celsias, Wikipedia, Mongabay.com, Project GoldenFrog , ARKive.

Praying for time

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These are the days of the open hand
They will not be the last
Look around now
These are the days of the beggars
And the choosers

This is the year of the hungry man
Whose place is in the past
Hand in hand with ignorance
And legitimate excuses

The rich declare themselves poor
And most of us are not sure
If we have too much
But well take our chances
‘Cause God’s stopped keeping score

I guess somewhere along the way
He must have let us all out to play
Turned his back and all God’s children
Crept out the back door

And it’s hard to love,
There’s so much to hate
Hanging on to hope
When there is no hope to speak of

And the wounded skies above
Say its much too late
Well maybe we should all be
Praying for time

These are the days of the empty …
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Ampoules fluocompactes et écologie : il reste du chemin à faire

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Je viens de lire un article dans La Presse au sujet des ampoules fluocompactes. Tsé, les nouvelles ampoules genre néon qui vont sauver la planète là ? Ben à ce qu’il paraît, c’est pas si simple que ça. Il y a un prix à payer pour sauver l’avenir de nos enfants.

À part le fait que la lumière qu’elles produisent «ne fait pas l’unanimité» et en tant que graphiste, je suis ben d’accord avec cet euphémisme :

L’article explique que ces ampoules contiennent DU MERCURE. Pas du plastique, pas des résidus de pétrole ou des dangereuses lames de rasoir. Non. Plutôt un métal lourd qui entrave le développement cérébral futur du cerveau de votre petit bout de chou (même si vous n’en avez pas encore un). Wow. …
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