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Genetic Changes In People with PTSD
People diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been found to have genetic changes in their DNA, making them different from healthy people, (see online May 3 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences). The researchers found that … Continue reading
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Killer Whale Genetics – Who’s Tastiest?
Are all orcas created equally? Hey Honey, what’s for dinner tonight? * What makes a species a species? * Looks the same? * Do dietary differences matter? * What about the amount of interbreeding between groups with a supposed species? … Continue reading
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Prepare Your House for an Extended Absence
Things to do before leaving your home unoccupied in the Tropics: This advice is geared to a typical NOB (North of the Border) owner who has a pool and pressurized water system (hydro-pneumatico) 1. Definitely drain the pool . . … Continue reading
Mexican Oil Production: Past, Present, Future
This article is a reply to some questions asked about the impacts of leaking deep water oil wells. Here are the questions: “. . .I am curious about about oil drilling off Mexico’s coast. Would that be Pemex who is … Continue reading
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Remote Control Rehab
Remote Control Rehab a cheap and easy solution to your Big Screen addiction? Send a surrogate to Betty Ford in your place? Sorry. . . . “…that dog won’t hunt…” This rehab is for everyone out there who has a … Continue reading
Driving in Mexico: Issues & Fun
This Category describes some of the issues with Importing Vehicles, Dealing with the Police, Auto Maintenance & Repairs, City Driving, and Cross Country Driving. * * Cross Country Driving? – See Dave & Shirley’s excellent site: Driving Through Mexico * … Continue reading
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“How to”/Fix-it Tropical Style
Tropical views on fixing & maintaining things. Continue reading
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Tagged appliance, appliance repair, auto, car, DIY, electrical, electronics, fix stuff, home repair, How to, Mexico, plumbing, repair, sapo, saro, scale, toad, toilet, toilet flush valve, toilet valve
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Test Your Toad
Finding and fixing the special leaks in toilets that happen with hard water and living in the Tropics. Continue reading
DEET Causes Problems in Humans
An article on some potential problems with using DEET, especially when combined with sunscreenand various medications. It includes information on how to use DEET properly and offers alternatives for equivalent mosquito protection. Continue reading
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Tagged DEET, DEET facts, DEET information, DEET usage, mosquito protection, permethrins, problems with DEET, sunscreen
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Mexico Driving: What would you do?
A few oddities of driving in Merida, Yucatan. Continue reading
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Tagged driving, driving in Mexico, living in Yucatan, Merida Mexico, Mexico, stop light, stop sign, visiting Yucatan, Yucatan, Yucatan Mexico
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Driving in Mexico (cruising?)
Driving in Mexico is like a prolonged game of whack-a-mole.
To maneje or not to maneje, yeah, that’s the question.
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Tagged driving in Mexico, living in Yucatan, Merida, Merida Mexico, Mexico, mexico driving, Progreso, visiting Yucatan, Yucatan, Yucatan Mexico
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Dengue Fact Sheet
Fact Sheet for recognizing and treating Dengue fever and strategies for breaking the Dengue transmission cycle. Continue reading
A Tale of Three Families: Dengue in Cuba and Mexico
A fractured fairy tale description of Dengue Transmission, the secret lives of Dengue’s Mosquitoes, and How not to Get Dengue. Continue reading
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Tagged A. ae., Aedes, Aedes Aegypti, Caribbean, CDC, Cuba, dengue, dengue fever, Dengue transmission, Dengue Virus, DHF, Mexico, WHO
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Importing & Driving a Car in Mexico
Over the years, there have been tons of repeated questions about driving cars into Mexico under Tourist Visas, FM2’s, FM3’s, (and soon FMM’s). Here’s a Yucalandian view: . . . Happy Trails! Continue reading
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Dengue Fever Information: What to Do?
Dengue is the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease in the world. In the last 50 years, incidence has increased 30-fold with increasing geographic expansion to new countries and, in the present decade, from urban to rural settings …. Dengue: … Continue reading
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Getting Stopped by the Mexican Police
“Dame mi multa, por favor.” (Please give me my ticket.) In the world of occasionally Kafkaesque road-side Mexican police stops, these thoughts are offered as a reminders of what’s really important in life: remain calm, cool, & collected, and it … Continue reading
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Emergency Numbers for Merida, Yucatan
Emergency Numbers for Merida, Yucatan: Put ’em in your cell phone &/or print before coming? Continue reading
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Nope, It’s Not Another Blog on “My Life in Mexico”
Living in Yucatan Mexico and smoothing out the rough edges. Continue reading
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Tagged dengue, dengue fever, DHF, driving, fm2, fmm, how do I, How to, Merida, Mexico, mosquitoes, moving to Mexico, vacation, visa, visiting Yucatan, yucalandia, Yucatan, Yucatan Mexico
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Surviving Yucatan 