Map Monday, Dog country or Cat country?

Are you a cat person or a dog person?  The answer to this question is said to reveal a lot about your personality and character.  One take suggests a dog person enjoys having others depend on them while a cat person takes a more live and let live attitude.  The… Read more“Map Monday, Dog country or Cat country?”

Map Monday, Halloween candy, tooth decay & fluoride

For as long as I’ve been alive (FWIW I can remember the 1960s) Halloween has been synonymous with costumes, trick-or-treating, and excess candy consumption.  The deleterious (there’s a nice big word – eh?) effects of said consumption include, upset stomachs, massive fluctuations in blood sugar levels with the attendant behavioral… Read more“Map Monday, Halloween candy, tooth decay & fluoride”

Map Monday, Just how big is the Pacific Ocean?

Everyone knows that the Pacific Ocean is the largest body of water on the Earth, but just how big is it?  The precise answer is that the Pacific Ocean’s surface area is 165,250,000 square kilometers (or for readers in Burma, Liberia, and the US, 63,800,000 square miles).  That’s just short… Read more“Map Monday, Just how big is the Pacific Ocean?”