"food without any preservatives or MSG" - What? Why? That eliminates citrus (ascorbic acid is a preservative, more specifically, an antioxidant) .,, and MSG is naturally found in mushrooms, grapes, tomatoes, and more. I can't help but think this is yet another diet piece aimed at the worries of people with too much money.
Miss C, it wasn't until you mentioned that that I realized how unusual that warning might be. I was born in Miami (where Dave Barry worked for the Miami Hearld) and lived in Leon County. I can't count the number of times I saw an alligator - most often in parks and wildlife areas, but also in the city, and tourist place like Silver Springs. Last time I was in Leon County we went for a walk in the St. Mark's Wildlife Refuge. The scores of gators weren't scary ... until sunset when they started moving.
FWIW, regarding "it's fine for adults to read children's books", I used to think it was silly to read children's books as an adult. I remembered that while I loved the Hardy Boys in elementary school, they were quite formulaic, and other stories I remembered were superficial. Now as a parent reading to our 3yo I found that some children's books are (shocking!) really very enjoyable. I've been known to read ahead, after he goes to sleep, because I wanted to know what happens. I apologize for my earlier snooty reaction to adults who read children's books.
328 feet is suspiciously close to 100 meters, and from the video it looks like he went down and back on a 50 meter lap pool. 262 feet is very close to 80 meters. And Croatia (like nearly the rest of the world) uses metric. So I'm going to guess they were going for nice round metric numbers, not odd-ball feet.
The article says "Although long courses of antibiotics were once thought to prevent resistance, we now know that overuse actually causes more resistance to develop." I haven't tracked down that claim though - I heard the same as you.
This sort of article isn't really part of the "Neat" aspect of "Neatorama". And the summary leaves out that it was a black student who "believes he was singled out in class because of his race, and that he feared for his safety when police were called", and that 'More than 100 faculty members signed a letter to the student newspaper “condemning the misuse of police in the classroom, calling out the institutional racism behind it, and telling you, our students, that we are with you.”' - quotes from https://triblive.com/news/world/ball-state-professor-suspended-for-calling-police-on-black-student/ . Which makes it rather not neat.
So not necessary. At least, not for our kids. Nor the preschool teachers. (What at they going to do - sync their phones they don't carry because the kids will want to play with them all the time to all of the diapers in the room? And how do they know *which* kid is wet?) Plus, do I still get the notice about a discarded wet one which I wrapped up but haven't discarded yet because the baby needed soothing?
Much of Chile is part of the Andes and won't be covered by water even if all ice melts. Santiago is over 500 m above sea level. Compare Florida and Chile in this flood map set for 100m of rise - https://www.floodmap.net/?ll=-15.114553,-81.590629&z=3&e=100 .
The term "eugenics" applies only to humans. Using it to mean simply "selective breeding" diminishes the atrocities done in the name of eugenics. Or are you a kook who accuses everyone who had the polio shot or took penicillin of committing genocide?
Our library has a bunch of golf pencils for kids to use. No erasers. We've got colored pencils at home, with no erasers. I've even got some regular pencils (for drafting) with no pencils. So our kids won't come up with that conclusion. "I can get it myself" are truly magical words.
I can't help but think this is yet another diet piece aimed at the worries of people with too much money.
Which makes it rather not neat.
"I can get it myself" are truly magical words.