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Found some interesting things while Googling Google

Have you ever googled google?  Some interesting things found are …

Techy Songs

Here are some techy songs (mostly consisting of computer and biochem) …

Jerry Seinfeld Documentary “Comedian”

Jerry Seinfeld’s documentary “Comedian” is a documentary. So it is not meant to be an non-stop laugh-a-minute comedy. If you want that, you can see reruns of his TV show or his comedy archives on his site JerrySeinfeld.com

This documentary gives us some insights into what it is like to be a stand-up comic as we watch Jerry go back to doing stand-up after his TV show. We also follow Orny Adams, a young comedian trying to make it in this business.

We get to see the anxiety of the comedians before their set, as well as their self-judging and analysis of their own performance after the set. After watching this movie we can understand that being a stand-up comic is not easy and requires a lot of work. We see Jerry rehearses the sequence of jokes and review his notes before the act.

In the movie, there are short dialogs where Jerry talks to Ray Ramona, Jay Leno, Orny Adams, Bill Cosby, and others. In the special features section of the DVD, you see the whole of Jerry’s and Orny’s acts on the “Tonight Show with David Letterman”. Both acts are very funny. In Jerry’s act, he starts answering the question of what he is doing after his TV show. And he turns it into a very funny joke. But he does give the real answer that he has a baby. And in fact, we do see brief moments of him and his wife and their baby in the movie.

Facts you may not know about your gut

The gut is one of the most important organs in the body.  Not only does it process your food, but it is the seat of the immune system.  When thing goes wrong with the gut, things eventually go wrong with the body.

The gut is how our body absorb vital nutrients. It is a rain-forest of bacteria — 3 pounds of them with over 500 different species of bacteria. Without them, we can not live.  Our bodies have more bacterial DNA than our own DNA.  There are 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells in our body.[reference]  So you can say we are more bacteria than human.  There are 100 trillion bacteria (that’s 100,000,000,000,000), weighing in at about 3 pounds (about the weight of your brain).  60% of your stool by weight is bacteria.

Some are good bacteria and some are bad bacteria. The good bacteria helps us digest food, make vitamins, detox poisons, produce energy, balance pH, and other tasks. The bad bacteria produce toxins, ferment starches, causes bloating, and wreak havoc on your gut which can cause all sorts of symptoms in your body including affecting your brain.

If the surface of our gut is laid out, it would cover a tennis court — that’s about 100 times the surface area of your skin. But this surface is not very thick (only one cell layer). Damage to this layer is called “leaky gut” or intestinal permeability. When partially digested food “leaks” through, then it triggers your immune system to respond with inflammation.

Quoting from the book Digestive Wellness…

“You have somewhere between 500 and 1000 types of bacteria in your digestive system, each type having hundreds of different strains. … They weigh several pounds and have the same metabolic capacity as your liver.”

You have good bacteria and bad bacteria. This balance of bacteria and the interaction of our genes has a profound effect on our metabolism and immune system.

If the bad bacteria overpowers the good bacteria, it can result in health issues. Bacteria have a technique known as “quorum sensing” where they activate when they sense that they have sufficient numbers.

From the book, Digestive Health with Real Food, it says there are 800 species and 7000 strains of bacteria.  95% of the neurotransmitter serotonin is found in the gut (not the brain).

What is an Amber Alert?

According to Wikipedia, AMBER alert stands for …

“America’s Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response, but was named for Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old abducted and murdered in Arlington, Texas, in 1996.”

MissingKids.com says …

“The AMBER Alert Program is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies, broadcasters, transportation agencies, and the wireless industry, to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases.”

 

If you just type “amber alert” into Google, Google will show you the latest amber alert in your area if any. Google knows the general location where you are surfing the web from, so it can display amber alerts in your area.

You can get a more generalized view of more amber alerts at http://www.google.org/publicalerts

Or see the latest Amber alerts at http://www.missingkids.com/AMBER

Sometimes amber alerts will sometimes display on smart phone such as Android and iPhones.  They are broadcasted over freeway signs, radio, and television.