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Tarlov Cysts: Incidental Findings?

  By Sherri Jones – That’s what Tarlov Cysts are usually called. Incidental Finding; Something found that does not relate to the symptoms, which brought about the need for the diagnosing MRI or CT. Something unexpected, something found by accident. When I came online and did a search for the meaning of “Incidental Finding”, the first [...]

Jerry & Sue Bazant’s travelogue to Mexico

  Across the USA Part 1 Our journey to Mexico started on the wrong foot. We just passed Thornbury when Sue, my wife, asked “Do you have your wallet?”“No, you have it, remember you told me that I am not dependable to carry any documents” I replied. After short argument we returned to Meaford to [...]

Cool species can take the heat

  Two scientists from Simon Fraser University and one from Deakin University (DU) in Australia have made a discovery that is overturning conventional wisdom about how land and marine animals react to heat.   SFU biologists Nick Dulvy and Jennifer Sunday, and DU environmental scientist Amanda Bates have discovered that all land-dwelling animals cope with extreme heat similarly, [...]

60’s Dance

  Hosted by the Meaford Museum     Tickets for the Canada Day 60’s Dance being hosted by the Meaford Museum go on sale today. The dance, the finale to a fun filled Canada Day Celebration going on in Meaford, is being held to celebrate the Meaford Museum’s 50th Anniversary. Opened in July 1961, the [...]

Unplugging with Your Kids, the case for less screen time

  Less screen time, more of your attention, an RX for attention problems By Victoria Costello – This is not to give parents another reason to feel guilty. We should simply know the facts and factor them in to how we live each day. Here it is…I want to encourage you to add up how [...]

What A Female Mid-Life Crisis Looks Like

  By Marcia Reynolds, Psy.D. – Forty years ago, a generation of women entered the workforce with unprecedented choices and few models for guidance. Now that these women have reached mid-life and those behind them are just entering this phase, we can begin to define what a “mid-life crisis of identity” looks like for women [...]

Solar power: The third way

A new method of making electricity from sunlight has just been tested   AT THE moment, there are two reliable ways to make electricity from sunlight. You can use a panel of solar cells to create the current directly, by liberating electrons from a semiconducting material such as silicon. Or you can concentrate the sun’s [...]