http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/ Marriage, birth, divorce, transitions, widowed, career, retirement, transitions, death, moving, rules of life, aging, caregiving, life events, life changes en-us jillfallon@gmail.com Jill Fallon Copyright 2009 Jill Fallon 2009-11-02T15:43:11-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2009/11/02/once_long_ago_i.html Phyllis Chesler on A Lesson Learned in Kabul Once, long ago, I was held captive in Kabul, Afghanistan. Yes, I went there of my own free will, but I was only 20 years old and in love with my... Jill Fallon Civilization - Can We Keep It? 2009-11-02T15:43:11-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2009/11/02/truth_not_perce.html Richard Fernandez writes one of the best essays of the year that begins with a mother's lament over the BBC's cocaine culture. Bows and Flows Why have we become so indifferent to counterfeits? So willing to accept the clever... Jill Fallon Culture and Society 2009-11-02T09:52:45-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2009/11/02/best_body_art_e.html Absolutely stunning body art by Craig Tracy with more examples here.  Above is 'Butterfly'.  I'll leave it to you to find the human body.... Jill Fallon Art 2009-11-02T09:34:30-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2009/11/02/another_reason.html There's growing evidence of a link between heart disease and gum disease. That’s the conclusion of a “consensus’’ statement written by leading gum disease specialists and cardiologists published online earlier this year in the American Journal of Cardiology and... Jill Fallon Health 2009-11-02T09:29:30-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2009/10/31/happy_halloween_1.html the Wigstownshire Astronomical Society From the soon-to-be official Dark-Sky Park, in Galloway Forest, registering Bortle 2 on the international darkness scale. Not far away comes the traditional Scottish prayer. From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that... Jill Fallon Spirituality, religion and rituals 2009-10-31T07:56:27-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2009/10/30/a_girl_is_more.html In 2006 the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Gardasil as a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) which is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women.  Gardasil is manufactured by Merck and the company... Jill Fallon Health 2009-10-30T13:32:23-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2009/10/30/were_governed_b.html We are governed at all levels by America's luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they're not optimists—they're unimaginative. They don't have faith, they've just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid... Jill Fallon Culture and Society 2009-10-30T01:01:01-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2009/10/29/we_still_dont_k.html DNA Nebula Seven questions that keep physicists up at night.  Among them: Why this universe? What is everything made of? How does complexity happen? What is reality really? "We still don't know how ordinary window glass works and keeps... Jill Fallon Science/ wonders 2009-10-29T23:03:55-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2009/10/29/down_to_nanowor.html Look at this amazing demonstration of Cell Size and Scale from the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah. Use the slider to zoom into the nanoworld from coffee bean on down to the carbon atom, passing... Jill Fallon Science/ wonders 2009-10-29T22:32:15-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2009/10/29/scenes_from_the.html Scenes from the Brave New World No men OR women needed: Scientists create sperm and eggs from stem cells Scientists at Stanford University in California found the right cocktail of chemicals and vitamins to coax the cells into becoming... Jill Fallon Brave New World 2009-10-29T17:04:28-05:00