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Alcohol

 

People with alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD) or alcohol-related dementia (ARD) may repeat themselves due to memory problems. Alcohol can damage the brain, especially if consumed heavily over many years. 

Explanation

Blackouts

Alcohol can cause blackouts, which are periods of time when someone can't remember what happened. 

Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS)

This syndrome is a type of ARD that can cause memory loss, delirium, and hallucinations. People with WKS may repeat questions or comments during a conversation. 

Alcohol-related brain impairment (ARBI)

This condition can cause difficulty learning new information, focusing, and retrieving information from memory. 

Alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD)

This condition can cause memory and thinking problems, including confabulation, which is when someone makes errors when recalling information. 

Other effects of alcohol

Alcohol can also cause chemical imbalances in the brain, which can make it hard to stop drinking. Other effects of alcohol include: 

anxiety, sleep disturbances, pain, feelings of illness, irritability, and emotional pain.

THE MAELSTROM

In 1803 the townspeople in Richmond, Virginia, were roused from their beds by a fire alarm and were able to view a very rich display between 1 and 3 o'clock. The meteors "seemed to fall from every point in the heavens, in such a manner as to resemble a shower of sky rockets."

 "Long ago, a massive perturbation of orbits in the Oort Cloud, perhaps triggered by a passing star or a tiny black hole, sent millions of comets hurtling towards the sun.  As they crossed the paths of the planets, some struck with the force of unimaginable explosions, gouging out craters hundreds of miles across and irrevocably altering the delicate balance of planetary orbits.  Those that reached the sun were torn apart by its gravity, their icy bodies fractured into countless fragments that were flung back into the Oort Cloud in vast, elliptical trajectories.  These icy shrapnel, a ghostly armada of cosmic debris, now returns.  Over millennia, they will bombard the inner planets once more, a relentless storm of impacts that will reshape the face of Earth.  New mountain ranges will rise from the shattered crust, while devastating earthquakes and volcanic eruptions will tear the land apart.  The very air will be thick with dust and ash, blotting out the sun.  This cosmic maelstrom will last for centuries, a period of unparalleled geological upheaval that will test the very limits of life's resilience."

 

The backside of the Moon. 

It may be that the theoretical "ninth planet" is a tiny black hole. Invisible to astronomers but Stellar-mass black holes are typically in the range of 10 to 100 solar masses. If in orbit about our own Sun and within the Oort Cloud its orbit could be thousands of years.

Brunswick Stew

4-6 quarts chicken broth
2 pounds boneless, cooked chicken, roughly chopped
2 quarts canned, diced tomatoes
1 cup chopped onion
3 cups fresh or frozen white potatoes, peeled and diced
1 quart frozen or canned butter beans, drained
1 quart frozen or canned whole kernel corn, drained

5 tablespoons sugar
kosher salt to taste
coarse black pepper to taste
crushed red pepper to taste

Place all ingredients in a large stockpot, starting with 4 quarts of chicken broth. Bring to a boil, and reduce heat to a simmer. Cook, uncovered, 1½-2 hours, until it becomes thick.

Add the remaining chicken broth, if desired, 1 quart at a time. Return to a simmer for an additional half hour before serving.

This stew also can be frozen.

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