• Astrology

    Music That Stuck With You & Formed You

    June 7, 2025 - By 

    With Venus square Neptune, I’m well aware of what can happen when music is involved! I often refuse to listen to it as I don’t always want to stir my deep feelings. Today, in my stupidity,  I put on some of my mother’s music; Simon & Garfunkel, specifically. I’m grateful for having grown up exposed to storytelling in music. I admired Paul Simon! I did not want to end up, “A Most Peculiar Man“(though I sort of may have)! I rejected, Richard Cory, and his power, grace and style as well! I definitely didn’t want to be a Rock or…

  • Science

    $900,000 grant to Retraction Watch’s parent organization will fund forensic analysis of articles that affect human health – Retraction Watch

    June 5, 2025 - By 

    The Center for Scientific Integrity, the parent nonprofit of Retraction Watch, has launched a new initiative to investigate and rapidly disseminate problems in the medical literature that directly affect human health. Thanks to a $900,000 grant from Open Philanthropy, the Medical Evidence Project will leverage the tools of forensic metascience — using visual and computational methods to determine a paper’s trustworthiness — to rapidly identify problems in scientific articles, combined with the experience and platform of Retraction Watch to disseminate those findings. “We originally set up The Center for Scientific Integrity as a home for Retraction Watch, but we always…

  • Travel

    Safety Wing Review (Updated 2025)

    June 5, 2025 - By 

    Budget travelers love saving money — myself included. But one of the expenses that we shouldn’t be cheap with is travel insurance. After over 17 years of traveling the world, I still never leave home without it. Why? Because I’ve seen firsthand how useful it can be — and how much money it can save. I’ve lost baggage, had my camera broken, and even needed emergency medical help over the years. Travel insurance has been there for me each time. Not only has it saved me money but it’s provided me with peace of mind as I explore. I’ve written…

  • Astrology

    June 5 Birthday Horoscope 2025-26

    June 5, 2025 - By 

    June 5th Birthday Horoscope 2025-2026 MORE BIRTHDAYS If Today is Your Birthday: June 5th   The Year Ahead Forecast for June 2025 to June 2026   If You Were Born Today, June 5: You need to have many things going on at once in order to feel satisfied in life. You seek variety and try to avoid situations that are lifeless or dull. As such, you are better off in a creative job, and in fact, you are likely to be quite successful in such pursuits as long as you learn to plan ahead and manage money well. You pick…

  • Travel

    Hiking the Sultan’s Trail in Eastern Europe – Stage 1: Vienna to Bratislava

    June 3, 2025 - By 

    As our followers on Facebook already know, we are hiking the 2500-km-long Sultan’s Trail from Vienna to Istanbul. After Coen was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer last summer, we decided that the best remedy to pull ourselves together and reclaim our lives was to walk. Hence this big adventure. We’re doing this for ourselves – for our well-being and to celebrate life – and we are combining it with a fundraiser for research into this particular type of cancer: glioblastoma (GBM). We’d love for you to join us in both journeys: the hike and the fundraising, which we’re running through the…

  • Online Deals

    12-Pack Vacplus Toilet Bowl Cleaning Tablets at Amazon

    June 3, 2025 - By 

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  • Astrology

    Daily Horoscopes for June 2: Insights and Guidance

    June 3, 2025 - By 

    Welcome to your daily horoscope for June 2. The Virgo Moon kicks off the day with clear eyes, fresh focus, and a serious urge to get your life together. After a weekend of Leo Moon energy — big feels, bold moves, and a little extra heat — it’s time to clean up the aftermath. ARIES (March 21 – April 19)That one thing you’ve been “just tolerating” at work? It could boil over today. Don’t let a messy group chat or chaotic Slack thread derail your focus. The Virgo Half Moon lights up your daily grind zone: if your body or…

  • Astrology

    First Impressions, Changing Habits & What You Desire

    June 1, 2025 - By 

    Humans judge people quickly.  Once they have their read they tend to find ways to support it rather than to be open to the idea their first hit might have been off. You can miss a lot this way. Separate but related, people get in habits with their behavior ,  These habits are hard to change and I mean this in the broadest sense. For example if you act as a decent person and you have for decades, it’ very unlikely you are going to start acting like a jerk unless something goes wrong in your brain. The opposite is…

  • Science

    How I Became A Bird Spy

    May 30, 2025 - By 

    https://www.lastwordonnothing.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/juncos-2.mp4 Don’t read too much into this, but I have become an obsessive bird spy. I blame LaWONian Ben Goldfarb. He wrote a post about his birdcam (and the board game Wingspan, which I still intend to try), and it made me think that a birdcam would be a great Mother’s Day gift. I consulted with Ben and selected one for Mom. Mom liked the gift well enough (she would never tell me otherwise), but it has attracted mostly rodents and she can’t keep it up all of the year due least she attract the bears in her neighborhood among…

  • Science

    Anthropologists spotlight human toll of glacier loss

    May 30, 2025 - By 

    In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer examine the societal consequences of global glacier loss in a commentary published today in Science. Their article appears alongside new research that estimates that more than three-quarters of the world’s glacier mass could disappear by the end of the century under current climate policies. While the study projects the physical outcomes of glacial melt, Howe and Boyer highlight the social impacts and human stories behind the statistics — from disrupted ecosystems and endangered cultural heritage to funeral rites held for vanished ice. “Often statistics…