HUMMINGBIRDS      
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I love to see and hear hummingbirds and have fed them many summers. I enjoy their shy antics. If you measure intelligence by the “encephalization quotient,” the brain-to-body ratio, the hummingbird appears to be the most intelligent of all animals, including us!

Hummingbirds are in the biological family of Trochilidae. They rank as the smallest birds with an average length of 3-5 inches. The smallest is the bee hummingbird that weighs 2 grams, the equivalent of two…

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Scientific American MIND  magazine published proof that brains experience single-hemispheric sleep during stress situations.

Stress situations are encountered by persons living in dangerous occupations such as the armed forces, law enforcement, and fire-fighting. Persons in the private sector may also have highly stressful jobs. One of the biggest impacts of single-hemispheric sleep is sleep…

MINDREACHER
THRILLER SERIES - BOOK I
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MAJOR JONATHON COULTER, USMC

Major Jonathon Coulter, USMC, is the hero in my thriller series, MINDREACHER.

He enrolled in the Shaolin Temple Kempo training  in China for three years after high school graduation.  After next enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps, he eventually became one of the few elite warriors to train and work with the United States Navy SEALs.

Coulter is considered a natural leader with courage, intelligence and integrity,…

Is Homosexuality Caused by Waterborne Estrogen?       
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Anything put on or in a human body eventually ends up in the ground water. Add to that the chemicals fed to or put on domestic animals and plants. Billions of tons of medicines and chemicals per year will eventually make their way to the water table, streams, rivers and oceans. Such chemicals have been found in ocean water at coastal…