A lot of Trump stuff in the news, but I'll let you  watch the Lawrence O'Donnell Show on MSNBC to bring some reality to what is happening .   Senate today votes on whether  Pete Hegseth  becomes Secretary of Defense. That  DEI order  about the federal government order.  This is just the beginning of what will affect people of color, especially African Americans, in the years to come.  Many of them are going to be pissed about voting for Trump. The mass deportation arrests have begun .  In time there will also be a lot of irritated Hispanics. President Donald Trump is visiting North Carolina and California today .  Want to know how your state will be accommodated if you have a cataclysmic natural disaster?   See what he says today .  Hawaii is in bad trouble, for a higher percentage of presidential voters supported Biden than California, and our governor flew to DC to protest the nomination of RFK Jr. for health secret...

Oral health and overall health are closely linked.  More so, the condition of your teeth and gums is crucial to your well being.  Flossing is the dental equivalent to exercising for a longer life.  You need both, but much more, too. To begin, the mouth is the primary pathway into the body, and an ideal environment for bacteria, fungi and viruses.    Take  bacteria : They can double their numbers every 20 minutes. In your mouth are  700 strains , typically 20 billion microorganisms, and they shed an additional 100 billion every day. Bacteria harden into plaque. They cause: Cavities Tooth loss Bad breath Gum recession Gum bleeding (gingivitis) Periodontitis (gum disease) Greater susceptibility to high blood pressure, stroke, cardiac arrest and heart disease Furthermore: This is how the process works: As the inflammation from pathogens or periodontal disease damages the tiny blood vessels in your gums, oral bacteria are allowed to enter your bloodstream. ...

My posting today is all about those three grand miracles that led to us,  Homo sapiens  today.   You either believe in religious creationism or science, for how we humans came to be.  This posting will focus on the latter. The history of guessing the age of Planet Earth and the Universe  goes back to the beginning of our species, and in the early 18th century, was only speculated to be on the order of millions of years old. The first scientific theories began to appear around the time of the U.S. Civil War. Until as recently as 1999, astronomers thought the age of our universe was between 7 and 20 billion years old In 1929 Edwin Hubble observed that the universe was expanding.  So the thinking was, if space is expanding, what if we trace backwards to the beginning.   It was a Catholic priest and Belgian cosmologist,  Georges Lemaitre , who in 1931 published an original paper on this subject. But  Miracle #1, the Big Bang , was coine...