Christopher Columbus and I have history. In the mid-1970s, while sitting over lunch in a villa overlooking Santa Margherita, I remarked that Columbus had apparently
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I see these arguments come from the Left and the Right, people with no advanced education and people with liberal arts or engineering degrees. The
One quarter remains.
In 2020, as the pandemic’s momentum gathered, my employer reduced our workforce to 50% by having us work alternating weeks. The goal of the reduction
Today at work I received an all-hands message asking for volunteers to staff a call center to contact Americans stranded in Afghanistan and provide them
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.
There’s an unhappy photo on the Associated Press of what appears to be a CH-47 Chinook hovering over Kabul evacuating diplomats. It looks distressingly like
The cover of USA Today ran the following headline yesterday: “We are failing each other”. I have to say that I disagree. The responsibility for
If it existed before 1500, it’s probably not a highly processed food.
15% of Americans are certain they will not get vaccinated and 17% say that they probably will not.
I have noted elsewhere that the average male between 18-35 years has 40-44% muscle. This drops to 32-35% for the 56-75 year cohort. A 170-pound
148.8 lb / 18.1% bf. I’m heavier than I like to be. Optimum mental health proceeds from optimum physical health.
Trump’s monumental ego, driven by proportional insecurity, prevents him from acknowledging that he was an incumbent president who lost to a rival he called “sleepy”.
It really is beginning to look like there is light at the end of the tunnel…..barring a really virulent COVID variant.
So Republicans were catatonic at the thought of paying the middle and lower classes $24,000 during this time of financial calamity for so many. They’ve
Again. I do it because it offers me the opportunity to be a measurably better person in eight months than I am now. I do
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.
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.
I prefer to call it sitting or sitting meditation, stripped of cultural nuances. Its root is zazen or zen, sitting meditation in Japanese. But there
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.
Photos are moments in frozen moments in time. Old photos show us how transient, and eventually meaningless, life is. There comes a time when everyone
A coworker of mine recently remarked about the inevitability of weight gain as we age. She was commenting on her partner’s loss of 20-30 pounds
I’ve noticed two logical arguments that are repeatedly used by Trumpists, both flawed. To America’s discredit, they seem to be gaining more general use. In
6/16/2021 Lunch on a Holiday On our unplanned national holiday, we hadn’t really thought about meals. Denise put together this yummy lunch….the salad was from
Incredibly naive? Or profoundly stupid?
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.
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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I wrote a fair amount during the George W. and Obama administrations, particularly the former’s. Incensed by the stupidity of squandering the 2000 budget surplus
Th. 6/3 Been chronically tired this week since the rowing. Decided to sleep in until 5 AM which pretty much precludes working out. We. 6/2
Local control of schools is a failure. People have lost, if they ever had, any ability to think analytically. Being able to posit an alternative
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.
Update to this article. The Economist distilled my thinking on 12/5/2020: Two factors tied to the pandemic help account for Taiwan’s relative success this year.
An hour’s exercise a day is magical.
I’ve written in the past that Zen was the religion of the samurai and Stoicism was the philosophy of the centurion. As with most generalizations,
We drove through Denali National Park.
Git her done.
I don’t believe in the supernatural. I do believe in the power of symbols.
The NYT is reporting that while the deaths attributable to corona virus is 303,963, the death rate has been higher than they would be in
A treadmill beats not running at all. Two miles beats zero miles. A cute advertising slogan for running shoes a few years ago went ”
Facebook is, of course, the most highly integrated. It exists primarily as an advertising platform but also allows its company to harvest extensive data about
Someone stopped by for breakfast.