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What I Learnt On 8th May in other years

8th May 2011 Mothers Day in Bowral

May the fourth be with you.

This month production begins on the next trilogy in the Star Wars trilogy of trilogies.

Mark Hamilton, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher will reprise their roles. They will be joined by a number of relatively unknown actors. JJ Abrams (Lost) will direct.

What I Learnt On 4th May in other years

4th May 2012 A Love of Learning

4th May 2011 AppSpin: TuneIn Radio

So Bad So Good presents a selection of strange medical procedures and freakish looking equipment from our recent past.

What do we do now that will look weird in the future?

More at So Bad So Good, where you can vote on whether this is Bad or Good.

Hat tip to Peter.

What I Learnt On 1st May in other years

1st May 2011 No Tech Sunday – Never Say Never

Diabetes Care. 2014 Apr 10. [Epub ahead of print]

The Effects of a Mediterranean Diet on Need for Diabetes Drugs and Remission of Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes: Follow-up of a Randomized Trial – Esposito K1, Maiorino MI, Petrizzo M, Bellastella G, Giugliano D.

There can now be little doubt that we all need to move to Tuscany.

In this 8 year follow up of a previous study, the low carb Mediterranean Diet was very significantly more successful than a low-fat diet in delaying the need for diabetic medication and for causing remission of diabetes.

Participants following the low carb Mediterranean diet were instructed to include plenty of vegetables, choose whole grain versions of starchy foods, replace most red meat with poultry and fish, and have at least 30% of their calories from fat, particularly from olive oil.

What I Learnt On 30th April in other years

30th April 2011 Mother’s Day Cards (on the cheap)

Easter in Mirambeena

What I Learnt On 20th April in other years

20th April 2011 Why Is It So? – Should you run or walk in the rain

The hotel room I stayed in last night was on the ground floor right next to the lift shaft. It did have a nice bed.

It did not, however, make the Lonely Planet‘s list of the Top 10 most extraordinary places to stay in 2014.

Perhaps next time I’ll get off the ground floor and stay in one of the Free Spirit Spheres, suspended above the forest in Vancouver. I can be one with the squirrels and the birds, instead of the motor of the lift.

Or I could aim even higher, and climb to the top of the 900 year old Torre Prendiparte B&B in Bologna.

But I think I’ll get even more out of town and stay in my very own sandcastle. The Mihir Garh sits all by itself in the middle of the Thar Desert near Jodhpur.

What about you?

What I Learnt On 19th February in other years

19th February 2011 Bobby Fischer’s Defence

How are you going with your New Year resolutions?

’59 seconds’ is new book and YouTube Channel from psychologist, quirkologist and magician Richard Wiseman. Just in the nick of time!

What I Learnt On 12th January in other years

12th January 2016 I found this humerus…

12th January 2011 Presentation Zen