Last Updated on December 8, 2021 by dgvause Photos are moments in frozen moments in time. Old photos show us how transient, and eventually meaningless,
Last Updated on November 16, 2021 by dgvause Global warming is unabated. The fourth wave of COVID infections beginning in July 2021was completely discretionary: an
Last Updated on November 16, 2021 by dgvause 2021 was not the best of years for me. During the 2020 lockdown, I flourished using the
Last Updated on November 7, 2021 by dgvause We decided to memorialize the meals of Saturday, October 30, 2021, since it began with a breakfast
Last Updated on November 6, 2021 by dgvause Breakfast this morning was a bit more elaborate. Whole whipped eggs with parmesan cheese and spinach. Hash
Last Updated on November 4, 2021 by dgvause We’ve all heard the mantra: we put on weight as we age because our metabolism slows down.
Last Updated on October 12, 2021 by dgvause Christopher Columbus and I have history. In the mid-1970s, while sitting over lunch in a villa overlooking
Last Updated on October 2, 2021 by dgvause I see these arguments come from the Left and the Right, people with no advanced education and
Last Updated on September 27, 2021 by dgvause One quarter remains.
Last Updated on September 22, 2021 by dgvause Today at work I received an all-hands message asking for volunteers to staff a call center to
Last Updated on September 22, 2021 by dgvause In 2020, as the pandemic’s momentum gathered, my employer reduced our workforce to 50% by having us
Dopamine is evolution’s reward system for behaviors that increased the reproductive success of hunter-gatherers, long-distance hunting and gathering, eating high calories foods, and sex. Today we no longer persistence hunt, but regular exercisers enjoy the rewards of the long hunt.
Last Updated on August 17, 2021 by dgvause Trump’s monumental ego, driven by proportional insecurity, prevents him from acknowledging that he was an incumbent president
I can’t believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to me to be too local, too provincial.
15% of Americans are certain they will not get vaccinated and 17% say that they probably will not.
Last Updated on August 17, 2021 by dgvause So Republicans were catatonic at the thought of paying the middle and lower classes $24,000 during this
Last Updated on August 17, 2021 by dgvause Th. 6/3 Been chronically tired this week since the rowing. Decided to sleep in until 5 AM
A singular feature of NOVA is its identification of ultra-processed food and drink products. These are not modified foods, but formulations mostly of cheap industrial sources of dietary energy and nutrients plus additives, using a series of processes (hence ‘ultra-processed’). All together, they are energy-dense, high in unhealthy types of fat, refined starches, free sugars and salt, and poor sources of protein, dietary fibre and micronutrients. Ultra-processed products are made to be hyper-palatable and attractive, with long shelf-life, and able to be consumed anywhere, any time. Their formulation, presentation and marketing often promote overconsumption.
If it existed before 1500, it’s probably not a highly processed food.
When JFK spoke the words “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” an entire nation understood.
Last Updated on August 17, 2021 by dgvause 6/16/2021 Lunch on a Holiday On our unplanned national holiday, we hadn’t really thought about meals. Denise
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Last Updated on August 17, 2021 by dgvause The cover of USA Today ran the following headline yesterday: “We are failing each other”. I have
Last Updated on August 17, 2021 by dgvause There’s an unhappy photo on the Associated Press of what appears to be a CH-47 Chinook hovering
148.8 lb / 18.1% bf. I’m heavier than I like to be. Optimum mental health proceeds from optimum physical health.
It really is beginning to look like there is light at the end of the tunnel…..barring a really virulent COVID variant.
Last Updated on April 3, 2021 by dgvause I have noted elsewhere that the average male between 18-35 years has 40-44% muscle. This drops to
Last Updated on March 4, 2021 by dgvause A coworker of mine recently remarked about the inevitability of weight gain as we age. She was
Last Updated on February 27, 2021 by dgvause Again. I do it because it offers me the opportunity to be a measurably better person in
Last Updated on February 14, 2021 by dgvause I prefer to call it sitting or sitting meditation, stripped of cultural nuances. Its root is zazen
Last Updated on January 25, 2021 by dgvause I’ve noticed two logical arguments that are repeatedly used by Trumpists, both flawed. To America’s discredit, they
After the rape of Capitol Hill by a Trumpian mob, I wonder if this is the act of hubris that I have long instinctively expected.
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Last Updated on January 9, 2021 by dgvause I wrote a fair amount during the George W. and Obama administrations, particularly the former’s. Incensed by
Incredibly naive? Or profoundly stupid?
Last Updated on January 9, 2021 by dgvause Update to this article. The Economist distilled my thinking on 12/5/2020: Two factors tied to the pandemic
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
Last Updated on January 4, 2021 by dgvause Local control of schools is a failure. People have lost, if they ever had, any ability to
Never let more than 72 hours pass between your last strength or cardiovascular work out.
Was reading somewhere about an author’s disappointment that something didn’t happen at the very end of 2020 to bring more closure. The sentiment is entirely silly.
I don’t believe in the supernatural. I do believe in the power of symbols.
Git her done.
Last Updated on January 1, 2021 by dgvause We drove through Denali National Park.
Last Updated on January 1, 2021 by dgvause I’ve written in the past that Zen was the religion of the samurai and Stoicism was the
An hour’s exercise a day is magical.
Last Updated on January 1, 2021 by dgvause Facebook is, of course, the most highly integrated. It exists primarily as an advertising platform but also