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Website Wednesday 

I must have been thinking, since I had time to get a Movie Monday up this week, that life was getting predictable around here. It isn't. Yesterday was tough because we are probably moving into a different stage of this disease. I think I mentioned that only 18% of heart failure cases are in hospice (probably because most people have that one last operation to "cure" them and that's how they die)  so the paradigm is still being filled in. (Looks like the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine published its first study on heart failure and hospice this year.) Anyway, yesterday was pretty dicey while today surprisingly may be halcyon, in about an hour I'll know.

Keeping the conversation on the human body, my first pick is:

http://www.livescience.com/34095-biggest-mysteries-human-body.html 

You get their 7 biggest mysteries of the human body like why most people are right-handed and why we have hair in certain places. Quick, interesting slideshows with words. Be sure to click around the top bar and don't miss the Image of the Day. The site is current and I like their "credo": LiveScience, launched in 2004, is the trusted and provocative source for highly accessible science, health and technology news for people who are curious about their minds, bodies, and the world around them. A very good way for adults and kids to get a wide variation of science/nature knowledge in an enjoyable fashion.

OK, this next one is getting in because it makes me happy: 

http://1x.com/photo/35193/ 

Not to put too much of a metaphoric meaning to it but this puffin lifts my heart. The joy of that next step to be taken. Click around for more photos but I'm sticking with the happy puffin.

I usually wind up just goggling my immediate research hot interests, like: Who the hell is Krishna? But this site: 

http://timelineindex.com/content/home.php 

is worth the bookmark for a one-stop click to answer such questions. For example: click "People, Personalities, Heroes" under "Who" and there is Krishna staring right at you with a short blurb, a picture and a hyperlink to more info on the dude. I can't find the authors behind the entries on this site but the one on Krisha looks fine as does the one on Pericles which I chose randomly. What I like about this site is that the information presented has that touch of "I may like to look further into this guy/gal." which, starting in my childhood, was always the hook I needed to spent hours in researching new things.

And now on for some more reading with: 

http://www.lettersofnote.com/ 

Letters of Note is: an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos. Scans/photos where possible. Fakes will be sneered at. Updated as often as possible; usually each weekday. 

You have one from Charles Bukowski thanking the man who took him from mundane employment into full-time writing. (Interesting story and read.) You have one from a daughter to her mom ten years after the mom's death from breast cancer. You have the correspondence from a "lowly" school teacher to Frances Ford Coppola which was the genesis of his movie of The Outsider. There's something for everyone here. Take a look.

And finally:

http://totallycoolpix.com/2011/02/world-press-photo-of-the-year-2010/

OK, these are from 2010 but they are "must see." These are not your "June, moon, spoon" photos and a lot of the comments reflect that their audience understands how important these images are. Then go to:

http://totallycoolpix.com/

for current pictures. They call themselves: Totally Cool Pix. They are also Totally Important.

That's it for this week. See you next Wednesday.