The gentleman I’m named after is a legendary athlete and one of the greatest runners of all time. Fact is stranger than fiction. Lasse Viren

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I suppose all of us are victims of something or the other, so this is not a panacea for all types, but for some of the most common types anyway. Stop watching TV. Unless your idea of entertainment happens to be shows hosted by Carl Sagan or Sir David Attenborough, turn the idiot box off. [...]

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I just read on the BBC News site that William Evan Allan, the last surviving Aussie veteran of both World Wars who saw active service passed away. The webpage on Allan’s demise then mentioned this in the second last paragraph. Australia’s Minister for Veterans Affairs, De-Anne Kelly, said his death meant an entire generation who [...]

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Reading the information on mental disorders on a site reminded me of the hilarious excerpt from Jerome K Jerome’s classic “Three Men in a Boat”. But first, here is the list of twelve important, common mental disorders, which, they tell us, are extremely common in society today. paranoid personality disorder, which is a pattern of [...]

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Here’s a neat test I found online while researching the effects of long term anger on humans. If you spend a lot of time angry or just hating everything you see, you might want to take the following test and see how you fare Clinical Anger Scale (CAS) I’m not sure if this is one [...]

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The humble dust mite, cause of allergic suffering for millions.

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Very few bands have paralleled the mighty Sodom in their two decade plus stomp through the hairy world of thrash metal. Agent Orange is simply stupendous. The first two tracks alone are bone-crushingly heavy and have that trademark scary earnestness which all German metal does. Perhaps that IS why it is so effective. This is [...]

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Here’s a particularly evocative snippet from ‘A Bottle of Gin’ by Robert Bloch. Collins hung up quickly. He’d made a damned fool of himself again. But it was no use. He couldn’t tell Edith what he meant to tell her. About the djinn. about the way he loved her. It was loving her that drove [...]

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Since Turkey is so agitated about entry into the EU, and a majority of people in the EU don’t want them in there, it’s become a big deal these days. Turkey claims the EU should be a global player and not just a ‘Christian Club’. Turkey, a predominantly poor country with only 5% of its [...]

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