Can being one with nature harm nature?
For Climate Change - Having your meat and eating it too.
“VUCA stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.
Advice from a bad mother
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The Fourth Turning and Complexity
Can a medication change our brain’s anatomy?
Are colonoscopies helpful?
Can the value of chicken soup be quantified?
VUCA?
Race in science
Pass the ammo
Sushi and lateral transmission
Curiosity is the insatiable hunger for knowledge and understanding that fuels our exploration of the world. Each of us has curiosity to varying degrees, often for one topic more than another. Curiosity, as with many of our biological drives, has a dynamic quality: waxing and waning. Some researchers were curious.
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Short, fat, juicy ones
Regulating guns
Want to make some money? Consider horror films
Not content with content
Is the Rat Czar necessary?
Food, Glorious, Food
John Oliver weighs in on Food Safety
Did they die from an asteroid or climate?
Fill it up or charge it, please
The untimely and unwarranted death of bees
Woke science
Today, there is simply too much known in far too many diverse fields for any person to hold it all in their brain. This means that, no matter how smart one might be, there are times when we have to push the “I believe” button and simply accept the statements of others. The problem is that these others are too often wrong, the topic is too often very important, and the statements made are too wildly disparate. We feel we must choose, yet we don’t know how.
Let’s play Unintended consequences
Reassessing the Luddites
Aging and Martin Scorsese
Lie, mistruth, or editing?
Spy vs. Spy
The real Uncle Tom
Education
File this under unintended consequences of regulations
I was always an early riser, but having to be at the hospital by 5 or so AM refined that predisposition. A new study of sleep shows that when we go to bed, how long it takes to fall asleep, and countless other measures of our biological need to sleep are part genetic and part cultural.
The honest answer to our shortage of primary care physicians
Musical scoring of Indiana Jones
Are our perceptions top-down or bottom-up?
Rules for Readers