nikki | July 26, 2008
I’ve been reading some articles here and there about how some college textbooks are available online for free downloads, but every time I try to find the free downloads I can’t find them. I’ve been looking for them because I want to be able to tell my friends and relatives where they can get these [...]
nikki | July 20, 2008
I was reading on the time.com website that a clinical trial for the government’s most advanced HIV vaccine candidate has been scrapped. The vaccine was to be a two-shot injection and was supposed to work by activating the body’s cell-based immune responses to HIV.
The trial has been scrapped largely because the previous trial of [...]
nikki | July 14, 2008
This past weekend a friend of mine was traveling from DC to Philadelphia, and decided to take the Amtrak train. I agreed to take her to the train station, and pick her up again. She had never taken the train to Philadelphia and didn’t know what to expect. So on Friday I drove with her [...]
nikki | July 8, 2008
My roomie Shelly brought home a crock-pot this weekend that she bought at a lawn sale. She said that she had a great recipe for a chicken that her mother used to make all of the time that she wanted to make for us this week. So she went to the market and [...]
nikki | July 2, 2008
You might think I’m crazy, but I run humidifiers in the summer. I run dehumidifiers in the basement, but up in the living areas of the house I run humidifiers in the main rooms that we live in. I only started doing that last summer when I noticed that my thumbs were developing [...]