Inspirational and good news.
According to a new study vegetables are good for the heart. Millions of kids out there are now going to realize that they should all their veggies…..or not. Either way, eat your vegetables.
“After 16 weeks the researchers found that the mice who had vegetables in their diets had 38% less build-up of fatty deposits in their arteries.”
LegalTorrents is a collection of Creative Commons-licensed, legally downloadable, freely distributable creator-approved files, from electronic/indie music to movies and books, which have been made available via BitTorrent.
The legaltorrents.com site is also hosting a ‘guaranteed’ high speed seed for them. Everyone that grabs the BitTorrent client and downloads helps contribute more bandwidth, because BitTorrent utilizes your unused upload bandwidth. All of the current torrents are made available under a Creative Commons license with the full permission of the rights holder.
They also have an RSS feed.
In an article in the Times Online, Midwife Katrina Caslake reports on her experience achieving orgasm during childbirth. She says that the keys to achieving pain-free, even orgasmic births is for the woman to relax and allow herself to feel sexy. She has science to back up her claims, too: The same hormones that are involved in love and sex are also involved in childbirth.
The practise of midwifery lost popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries, when male doctors were too embarrassed to allow women to feel sexy during childbirth. Since the middle of the last century, midwifery has grown in popularity.
I’m heading off to Quebec today and I realized that we haven’t reported on a cool thing that Quebec did recently. Quebec has introduced a carbon tax!
Microsoft has announced that they will release a tool for Microsoft Office applications that allows for people to easily publish things they create using a creative commons license. This is a great step for the CC movement, something that ThingsAreGood is part of.
“The goal of Creative Commons is to provide authors and artists with simple tools to mark their creative work with the freedom they intend it to carry,†said Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of Creative Commons. “We’re incredibly excited to work with Microsoft to make that ability easily available to the hundreds of millions of users of Microsoft Office.â€
“It’s thrilling to see big companies like Microsoft working with nonprofits to make it easier for artists and creators to distribute their works,†said Gilberto Gil, cultural minister of Brazil, host nation for the Creative Commons iSummit in Rio de Janeiro June 23 through 25, where the copyright licensing tool will be featured. Gil, who will keynote at the iSummit, has released one of the first documents using the Creative Commons add-in for Microsoft Office.