Things I Learned Today

From my own experience:

London can be dead silent sometimes. There are the crazy urban areas where everything and everybody is whizzing and whirring by but in the middle of a big park, like Victoria, it is as if nothing is around except a squirrel rustling through the grass or a bird chirping, I love it.

My dollar is pathetic!

The swans on the canal will ALWAYS hiss at Peanut as she runs by.


From a great newspaper called the Guardian:

France subsidizes artists who work something like 570 hours investing in their art form over 10 weeks time.

These are the 4 most environmentally polluting countries per capita (from worst to less bad): 1) Australia 2) U.S. 3) Great Britian 4) China.


From a great book that I recommend to everyone. It is informative and enjoyable because it is one family's account of trying to live on locally grown food, called "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver:

The turkeys we eat generally (those non-organic ones we can pick up anywhere) are genetically altered and bred to grow so fat and inactive that the females have to be artificially inseminated. There's no energy to go about it naturally.

"Nearly three quarters of all antibiotics in the United States are used in CAFOs." (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations)