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Tame Bear on August 29th, 2013

An article in the April/May 2013 issue of AARP Magazine (yes, I am old enough to be a card carrying member of AARP) talks about “Superfoods that Power You Up” and why they contribute to health and slow the processes of aging. Here is a list of the “longevity” foods: Coffee Thyme Wild Salmon Kale […]

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Tame Bear on July 1st, 2013

Vizify has done it again with another cool way to summarize your Twitter experience. This time it’s by combining details about when you post, your favorite topics, photos and followers, and a few of your top posts quoted, all in a lively animation set to catchy music, under a minute long. Click to see mine, […]

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Tame Bear on April 18th, 2013

About a month ago I discovered the 5:2 diet — 5 days per week eating normally (following my LoseIt plan), and on any two non-consecutive days of my choosing I “fast.” Fasting in this case does not mean eating nothing. Because I’m a guy, I can eat 600 calories. (For women, it’s 500 calories.) After […]

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Tame Bear on March 15th, 2013

Here’s what happens when an automated robo-call from CVS Pharmacy contacts my Google Voice phone number with voice-to-text translation:    “Yellow This is C. V. S. Pharmacy. Our records indicate that it’s time for Peter, yo Cally. Yeah to refill the prescription with us you call back later today to remove this number from a […]

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Tame Bear on December 31st, 2012

Twitter this year teamed up with Vizify to produce summaries of anyone’s Twitter feed from 2012, distilling it down to the top ten words. Here’s mine. Nothing too surprising — these are The Bear’s top ten words, with “World” leading the pack by a wide margin. (Click on the chart to read the list.) I […]

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Tame Bear on December 30th, 2012

Wisdom Road: http://t.co/rfaSWy5a "Ask. Believe. Receive." pic.twitter.com/0Qm8WZzt — Tame Bear (@TameBear) December 31, 2012

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Tame Bear on December 19th, 2012

Wisdom Road: wisdomroad.com/shop/buy.php?d… “Breathe in life, breathe out poetry.” ~Muriel Rukeyser twitter.com/TameBear/statu… — Tame Bear (@TameBear) December 19, 2012  

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Tame Bear on November 30th, 2012

Everything has a life — a beginning, a middle, and an end. Absolutely everything. An endless ebb and flow of energy in countless forms. Each one of us is born, we live, and then we die. Every animal and plant comes into being, lives, and dies. Everything has an arc of life that opens out […]

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Tame Bear on November 15th, 2012

In the following three videos, Dr. Lothar Shäfer of University of Arkansas delivers a presentation titled “Quantum Reality and the Importance of Consciousness in the Universe,” drawing a connection between our current scientific understanding of quantum physics and the role of non-dual, non-local conscious awareness. This presentation took place in Barcelos Portugal, in 2010. Shäfer begins […]

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Tame Bear on September 21st, 2012

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