http://goatrevolution.com/blog2 Marla's adventure from Aplastic Anemia and beyond Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:37:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Plutonium:  a History of the World's Most Dangerous Element by Jeremy Bernstein is another informative book for anyone interested in nuclear issues.  This book is rather short (only 171 pages), but still full of interesting information.  It primarily deals with the discovery of plutonium and the many key scientists involved ... http://goatrevolution.com/blog2/2012/02/05/plutonium-a-history-of-the-worlds-most-dangerous-element/ For anyone interested in nuclear issues and the history of it's discovery, I recommend reading The Plutonium Files by Eileen Welsome.  I actually finished reading this book back in November, but was too busy to sit down and give it a proper review.  Now that I'm currently reading another book ... http://goatrevolution.com/blog2/2012/01/23/the-plutonium-files/ This post is going to be a mixed bag of things.  The first item is actually a mixed bag of yarn.  Around Christmas time I was doing a search online for sock yarn and came across a link to the Supersock Store.  They were advertising a 50% off sale on ... http://goatrevolution.com/blog2/2012/01/20/mixed-bag/ Apparently, my previous post of the rice terraces was a bit confusing as to how rice grows.  To clear the confusion, I thought I'd post a few more rice pictures.  Here's a picture of rice at the terraces before harvesting. Here's a closer picture with Brian reaching out to touch the ... http://goatrevolution.com/blog2/2012/01/18/more-rice/ Last week I got an email from my sister asking if I would forward her a copy of some family pictures with some Ifugao and/or pictures of the rice terraces.  Being the compliant sister that I am, I dutifully forwarded her a few pictures no questions asked (after all we ... http://goatrevolution.com/blog2/2012/01/12/the-philippine-rice-terraces/ It's the last day of 2011.  We're here at mom's.  I'm expecting a quiet night as we don't really have anything planned aside from eating, heheheh.  Now that all the craziness of the holidays has passed, there's more time for me to reflect on this past year.  Sure seems like ... http://goatrevolution.com/blog2/2011/12/31/december-31-2011/ Boy, I leave my blog for a short while and come back to find it full of spam!  Grrrr.   I've recently run into a little bump in the road because my house got burglarized last Monday. . . among other things, they took my laptop.  Yeah, the one I use ... http://goatrevolution.com/blog2/2011/12/03/just-checking-in-3/ Finished cooking the cookies, and now have the turkey and the broth for the gravy started.  Will wait a couple hours before starting up the pork stew.  I already baked the pork that I'm going to use in the stew this morning, so have time to check my email and ... http://goatrevolution.com/blog2/2011/11/24/happy-thanksgiving-2011/ Before I get too lazy, I thought I'd start to share some of the pictures we took while at Mexico City.  Here's a pic near our hotel on the Avenue Reforma. Brian and I were taking a walk to look for a place to exchange currency.  The rate we found was ... http://goatrevolution.com/blog2/2011/11/21/mexico-city-part-ii/ Back in 1999 when I was first diagnosed with aplastic anemia, I was frantically looking for ways to naturally treat myself.  Amongst some of the known causes of aplastic anemia was radiation exposure.  From that time on, I was fascinated with the history and discovery of radiation and how it ... http://goatrevolution.com/blog2/2011/11/18/lost-worlds-secret-cities-of-the-a-bomb/