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Here’s new research on what to eat so you it is more likely that you will age better.

Put the photo below on your fridge. It’s simple, eat more of what’s at the top of the list, less of what’s at the bottom and you’ll be more likely to have good things like “intact cognitive function”, and “survived to 70 years of age”.

Medscape pointed me to this article on the correlation between what people eat and how well they age: Optimal dietary patterns for healthy aging, in Nature Medicine. (local copy)

Here’s the money-shot page as a PDF

The list isn’t perfect. It has “creamy soup” near the bottom. Do they mean that creamy soups kill you? No, but it’s hard to tease the data with all of our daily lifestyle choices!

Laura’s Facebook account kept getting messed with despite me installing 2 Factor Authentication! I finally found that the baddy had been hiding their access to her account under a Facebook “Connected Experiences” account. I show you exactly how I found them and removed the baddy.

In brief, go to accountscenter.facebook.com and look for Connected Experiences | Logging in with accounts. If you see any names there, especially if they are logged in from an unexpected place (in my case they were logged in from Vietnam!) it’s probably a bad actor who has access to your account that shouldn’t!

To fix it, go back to accountscenter.facebook.com and look for Accounts. Remove the offending accounts!

Megan and I went to a wonderful magic show last night, Kevin Blake, The Illusionist at the Palace Theater.

It was a very enjoyable evening with my wife. Oh and dinner beforehand at a restaurant down the street… “606” I think it was called, was a real treat!

Particularly memorable parts of the show include the first moments of the show when he threw a paper airplane and after a few feet, it just hovered in the air impossibly!

He talked eloquently about neuroliguistic programming and the debunked “magic” behind it and then proceeded to magically force people to take numbers and sit where he wanted them to in order to manifest a perfect arrangement of people, numbers, and chairs.

Dice rolling: He rolled dice down a clear acrylic dice rolling tower and audience members got to call out what number they would roll. His showmanship was excellent and the whole room cheered on as each die came up with the roll that was called out!

Mentalism: when we walked in at the beginning of the evening, we found envelopes on our chairs, asking us to write down a personal question, and then answer it. Just before intermission, Kevin asked us to put the envelopes into a box on the stage. The box sat there under a spotlight during intermission. After intermission, he came out, and did the impossible!

First, he talked about and showed that he didn’t have some insanely sophisticated technology to watch and listen to people during intermission, and he didn’t have an earpiece. And then he began…

He picked up the first envelope without opening it and read off the initials on it. He set the envelope down and started addressing the person with slowly increasing certainty… sounding out their name, details about the question and answer. He nailed it. For the next person, he didn’t pick up an envelope, he just called out some initials and started in. For the next, he pointed to the person in the audience as he said the next initials, gave details about the person, what zodiac sign they were, brought up the question and the answer in what was a beautifully creepy mentalism! Most astoundingly, he talked about more than 50 people as if he KNEW them and all of their secrets. But how!?! At a minimum, he needed to MEMORIZE ALL THAT INFORMATION after IMPOSSIBLY extricating it from the cards that we put in the envelopes! Or, the most obvious answer would be that he just knew everything… EVERYTHING! It was awesome!

Multiplication Board: after he was done with the envelopes, he rolled a board out. He had asked people to fill in the board during intermission, each of the 24 cells were to be filled in by a patron with a 2 digit number and their initials. He looked over the board for a few moments and then did the impossible! He turned to the audience and did things like reciting ALL of the numbers, all of the 10’s place numbers, adding up all the numbers of a row, adding up ALL of the numbers. Then, still without looking at the board, he rattled off all the initials!! Had people stand up and then sit down as he recited their initials! It was insane! He did everything with such speed and precision, there is no way he was listening to a secret prompter. He must have memorized the entire board and done all the math! He must have!

Cards: A fun, elaborate card trick where he dealt cards and gave one person a royal flush, and yet he ended up with a higher hand!

I think it’s totally awesome that Ken Brown’s art, that I’ve mentioned here before is for sale again!

Check out the charismatically psychedelic, Ken Brown Stuff Shop Page!

Avelo airlines took a contract with the federal government to deport people for Trump. There is a petition against it. I signed and made a 30 second video about why I signed:
Petition: https://chng.it/hKCYQ9BpLR
Video: https://www.change.org/p/we-won-t-fly-avelo-until-they-stop-ice-flights-no-volaremos-con-avelo/v/854540219

“I’ll go further than signing this petition about these illegal and un-American deportations. If Avelo airlines engages in deportation flights, I promise to never use Avelo or any of the board members’ products ever again. So, to the CEO, Andrew Levy and every other board member, you had had better make a lot of money RIGHT NOW because after the Trump administration forgets about you, you may have a much harder time getting work.”

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To figure out what kind of tree you should plant, consider these resources:

Selectree – Select-a-Tree

The El Cerrito Master Tree List for Public Places (partially borrowed from SelecTree)

Consider calling the El Cerrito city arborist, Stephen Prée at spree@ci.el-cerrito.ca.us or (510) 559-7685. He’s knowledgeable and friendly!

Read how a major nonpartisan medical organization describes how Trump and RFK Jr’s cuts are making medical care in America decidedly less safe. Remember how much more risky surgeries were in years past? THIS organization has been making them safer. And they’ve still got a lot of work to do to!

This is just one of many articles Medscape has written recently about problematic policies (read: killing Americans) enacted by the new presidential administration. It’s like Trump is trying to save the people a few bucks by removing the seat belts from our cars.

From the article

“If you’re going to spend $5 trillion a year on health care, it would be nice to know what the best use of that money is,” said a senior AHRQ official who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of losing his job. “To gut a 300-member, $500 million agency for no other reason than to placate a need to see blood seems really shortsighted.”

I don’t recall exactly where I heard this story… it might have been at a trade convention in Las Vegas in 2000 where I saw William Shatner across the way.

The storyteller was sitting at a coffee house, chatting with William Shatner in about 1998. Shatner’s cellphone rang, and he opened his StarTAC phone with the exact same motion he’d used 30 years earlier with his Star Trek communicator. The same dramatic snap, the same effortless cool. Only this time, it wasn’t a prop. It wasn’t science fiction. It was real. The storyteller sat there, stunned. And the punchline? Shatner didn’t even notice the magic of the moment. To him, it was just Tuesday.

I think a lot about how in just 30 years, absolute science fiction was turned into an everyday item!

For reference, the most modern phone available when Captain Kirk was cruising the stars in 1966 was this Western Electric Rotary Desk Phone.

1966 Western Electric Rotary Desk Phone

1999 StarTAC phone

2266 Star Trek communicator

Megan and I went on a date to Emotionair: Art You can Feel San Francisco, AKA The Balloon Museum at the Palace of Fine Arts on Monday (while Abigail was at school and she was on break!). It was astounding! It was filled with interactive, imaginative, immersive, big art! Go! Warning: they say it’s a 1 1/2 hr tour but it captivated us for 3 hours and could have stayed longer if we had a snack and didn’t have to get on with our day! I think we might go back. :-)

Megan in the smokey laser bubble room!

We played with the projected kaleidoscopic squishy light plastic sheet table for half an hour!

The Washington Post, fact-checked everything Trump said during his first term. They declined to do it again for his second term in office because… well, he lied so much, he exhausted the fact-checkers. Here is the full story

Why we’re not doing a Trump claims database for his second term
Many readers keep emailing: Why is the Washington Post Fact Checker not keeping track of Trump’s false and misleading claims during his second term, as it did when Trump was first president? Lots of conspiracy theories abound, but the answer is simple. We needed to get back our lives.

In his first term, we documented that Trump accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency. Trump averaged about six claims a day in his first year as president, 16 claims day in his second year, 22 claims day in this third year — and 39 claims a day in his final year. Put another way, it took him 27 months to reach 10,000 claims and an additional 14 months to reach 20,000. He then exceeded the 30,000 mark less than five months later.

While the database won wide acclaim — it was nominated by the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University for inclusion in a list of the Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade — it took a personal toll. We lost many evenings and most of our weekends to keeping it up.

That’s why we only compiled a database for the first 100 days of Biden’s presidency. If Kamala Harris had won, we likely would have done the same. But Trump is in a different realm. He’s constantly talking, repeating the same false claims over and over, no matter how often they have been debunked.

The fact checks in the original database amount to about 5 million words and many include links to sources that debunk Trump’s statements. He keeps repeating many of them in his second term, even while making new ones. To examine it, please click the link below.
Read the database