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A Test for Your Virtual Age

Do you want to know how the lifestyle choices you are making every day are impacting your life? Go to Virtual Age by Poodwaddle.com and have fun.

Or sit up and take notice!

Best of health, naturally,
Nina

Brain Games with Lumosity

In between studying for a test today on digestion and the micronutrients, I woke up my brain last night with some brain games that I found on lumosity.com. They refreshed me and I went back to the books with renewed vigor!

If you want to improve your memory, your attention, your processing speed, give these games [...]

Quiddler

Have you checked out the games and challenges on Quiddler? They have games for all ages. I tried the Daily Quiddler game quite regularly for a while, but I haven’t done it recently. I see they list their cards now and I realise that having a deck of the Quiddler cards would make it a [...]

Have you noticed all the anti-…

Have you noticed all the anti-wrinkle ads these days? Advertisers are telling us that wrinkles aren’t fun. Mine are laugh lines.

A Wordle on an Introduction to Digestion

Do you like this word-cloud image? I’m finding it fun to plug text into the wordle website and check out the result. This “wordle” is the result of plugging in my notes from CSNN’s introduction to digestion today.

And here’s another wordle using text from the home page of the Savings-Naturally.com webstore.

I’m having fun!

Best of health, [...]

Dragons in My Life

I have many dragons in my life. All of them are good, inspiring, fiery, fiercely creative, and warmly embracing.

For a start, I was born in Wales, a principality of Great Britain whose emblem is the Welsh dragon. Wales’s flag is pictured here.

According to Data Wales, the red Welsh dragon was

seen as a symbol of national [...]

Comedogenic or Non-comedogenic

I just looked up this lovely word “comedogenic.” It’s an adjective meaning “tending to produce or aggravate acne” according to the Free Medical Dictionary. Previously, in most other explanations, I’ve read that it refers to oils that clog facial pores. Actually, I thought that was rather comic, er, funny, er, strange, that such a word [...]

September 12 in Sofia

You can immerse yourself into the culture of another country at various levels when you travel:

emigrate and work or study there;
buy a home (a holiday home even) and live and work or study there;
live in someone else’s home and work or study there;
pay for where you live (e.g. a hotel) and work there;
buy a home [...]