A look inside opioid addiction and how to address it
The central act of Larry Harrison’s day is to tip back a couple of ounces of liquid that tastes like pink cough syrup.
Don’t fear the “mu”
The most-read story on the Washington Post website yesterday (Friday, Sept. 3) was about the “mu” (pronounced “myu,” like what a cat says when it can’t be bothered to fully meow) COVID-19 variant. UCHealth, the...
The coronavirus booster shot is, ethically speaking, meat.
I recently had a conversation with a vegan friend of mine. The conversation was drifting into the ethical and moral arguments for and against the consumption of meat. This sometimes happens with vegans. I’m not a vegan, nor a vegetarian...
Covid-19 in CO and FL: A tale of the tape
I was reticent to travel to Florida from my adoptive home state of Colorado. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s laissez-faire lassitude toward the pandemic – to Floridians’ great detriment – a has been all too well-documented. But then I looked at the...
Coronavirus in the air: what we know; what can help
Just because it doesn’t look dirty doesn’t mean it’s clean. That’s always been true, of course. But the coronavirus pandemic is reinforcing this lesson in unspeakably tragic ways. A gleaming doorknob could well be coated with millions of...
Coronavirus is exponential math in human lungs
I have not rented space in a former Minuteman missile silo, nor have I stockpiled a cubic kilometer of toilet paper or a reservoir’s worth of PET water bottles. But Covid-19 is extremely serious, and it’s serious because of something Al Bartlett...
Microsoft Band 2 and heart rate
I bought Microsoft Band 2 a few weeks back ($200). I’d looked at the Band 1 a year ago and was a bit scared off by its extreme flatness; the Band 2 has a nice arch. I jumped on it. This post is about heart rate monitoring accuracy, but...
Print vs. Video: a Double-Lung-Plus-Liver Transplant Smackdown
As a writer with limited Photoshop skills and very limited video-editing skills, I’m tend to be in awe of good video. Since I left the Daily Camera in 2007, though, I haven’t had a chance to compare a story of mine with the video...
Fresh (Baked) news on weed and the developing brain
Abigail Sullivan Moore’s New York Times piece on a new study on the effects of marijuana and the developing brain is another arrow in the increasingly crammed quiver of evidence that weed and growing brains don’t mix. This one shows...
Crazy awesome scary NYT graphic on birth weight/education/race/mom-age on academic performance
The NYT blog “The Upshot” put together a story and a dynamic chart published Oct. 10 that encapsulates a ton more information than at first glance. Play with the variables and think about what it’s really telling us. The story...
The Varidesk Pro Plus and the Big Black Billy Bass
I am an antsy dude, generally, and with catastrophic posture while seated at work here in the converted dining room. Plus the alarming, if not entirely concrete, in my estimation, health effects of long-term duff-parking. I had been casually...
Why light exercise brings big benefits
I played college soccer and have, in the ensuing 23 years, held firm to a no-pain, no-gain exercise philosophy. As recently as a couple of of weeks ago I still scoffed at the “fat burn” heart-rate levels my Polar FT7. I ran at 95...