The drug companies even have some quizzes on their website to see if you have Adult ADD: “Do you have problems wrapping up projects or starting them? Or remembering appointments? Do you put things off? Do you feel overactive? Do you fidget if you must sit for a long time?”
We had an interesting occurrence over Halloween. We saw these striking orange-colored mushrooms growing out of the stump of a dead tree. They probably came out as a result of all of the rain we’d gotten in October. I took the picture of them and then read more about them on the Internet.
The interesting thing is that they supposedly glow in the dark. The area under the gills is supposed to glow a faint green. I took a piece of one into the closet and after allowing our eyes to adjust didn’t see it glow. Evidently you need to get them when they are fresher. It did seem kind of silly looking at a mushroom in the closet.
Last week Dad sent an email question to make us think and to get away from the usual email arguments about politics and religion. The question was, “What invention in the last 500 years has changed the world more than any other?”.
My reply was the following inventions have had the biggest impact:
The internal combustion engine has changed the way people travel, conduct warfare, transport goods, and farm (mechanized farming). The silicon chip has had the biggest impact in the last 30 years. Most of the conveniences that we take for granted (like air conditioning) would not be possible without Westinghouse’s contribution of electrical generation and transmission. Finally, the nuclear age has brought both benefits and problems, and certainly changed the world.
