Culture and Arts: Shop at the Museum: The Well-Edited V&A
The newly stocked and themed shop at London's Victoria and Albert Museum has a wide variety of items that are inexpensive, light in tone and weight as well as, well, just fun. We bought small items for almost every member of the family at this shop recen…
Home and Shopping: Shopping for Home and Body: Iris Hantverk: How to Brush With Style
While at Liberty's bath shop in London we came across this line of brushes for cleaning and bath purposes. They were so appealing that we were delighted to find one for ourselves as well as grandchildren.
Culture and Arts: Craft in America, Part Two, a Virtual Look
"From Eastern shipwrights to Navajo weavers; from those who work with needles to those who work with sledgehammers, from saddlemakers and banjo-builders to the potter who’s ‘always praying over the kiln’."
News and Issues: Are Thousands Dying from a Lack of Health Inurance? FactCheck.org Examines the Question
A 2004 study published in the journal Health Affairs looked at data for those age 55 to 64 in the Health and Retirement Survey. It controlled for socioeconomic factors and found the uninsured in the group had a 3 percent higher risk of dying over an eight-year period. The study called uninsurance the third leading cause of death for that age group, saying that more than 13,000 yearly deaths "may be attributable to the present lack of insurance coverage among the near-elderly.
Health, Fitness and Style: JAMA's Study of Online Posting of Unprofessional Content by Medical Students
Violations of patient confidentiality were reported by 13% (6/46). Student use of profanity (52%; 22/42), frankly discriminatory language (48%; 19/40), depiction of intoxication (39%; 17/44), and sexually suggestive material (38%; 16/42) were commonly reported.
Home and Shopping: Women Winemakers: Big House's Good-Value Selection Grows with Georgetta Dane at the Helm
“Our goal,” according to Georgetta Dane, “is to trumpet the many underappreciated Mediterranean varieties that express such a rich and varied array of aromas and flavors.”
Relationships and Going Places: Cemetery Chronicles
As a young woman, I had the good fortune to accompany my father and his life-long friend on a walk through our hometown cemetery. The warm summer evening, with the sun casting long shadows behind the grave stones, made me feel that life might never end, even though the location insisted otherwise.
Money and Computing: Relaxing to the Internet
When asked whether they used the internet to relax and help get their minds off of the recent economic or financial problems, three-quarters (74%) of online economic users said they had done so.
