Last Updated on October 2, 2021 by David Vause I see these arguments come from the Left and the Right, people with no advanced education
Last Updated on September 27, 2021 by David Vause One quarter remains.
Last Updated on September 22, 2021 by David Vause Today at work I received an all-hands message asking for volunteers to staff a call center
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 David Vause Trump’s monumental ego, driven by proportional insecurity, prevents him from acknowledging that he was an incumbent
15% of Americans are certain they will not get vaccinated and 17% say that they probably will not.
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.
Last Updated on August 17, 2021 by David Vause So Republicans were catatonic at the thought of paying the middle and lower classes $24,000 during
If it existed before 1500, it’s probably not a highly processed food.
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.
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 David Vause It is painfully obvious to anyone with a background in evolutionary biology. In biology, the only
Last Updated on August 17, 2021 by David Vause
Last Updated on August 17, 2021 by David Vause The cover of USA Today ran the following headline yesterday: “We are failing each other”. I
Last Updated on August 17, 2021 by David Vause There’s an unhappy photo on the Associated Press of what appears to be a CH-47 Chinook
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 David Vause I have noted elsewhere that the average male between 18-35 years has 40-44% muscle. This drops
Last Updated on March 4, 2021 by David Vause A coworker of mine recently remarked about the inevitability of weight gain as we age. She
Last Updated on February 27, 2021 by David Vause Again. I do it because it offers me the opportunity to be a measurably better person
Last Updated on February 14, 2021 by David Vause I prefer to call it sitting or sitting meditation, stripped of cultural nuances. Its root is
Last Updated on January 25, 2021 by David Vause I’ve noticed two logical arguments that are repeatedly used by Trumpists, both flawed. To America’s discredit,
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 David Vause I wrote a fair amount during the George W. and Obama administrations, particularly the former’s. Incensed
Incredibly naive? Or profoundly stupid?
Last Updated on January 9, 2021 by David Vause Update to this article. The Economist distilled my thinking on 12/5/2020: Two factors tied to the
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 David Vause Local control of schools is a failure. People have lost, if they ever had, any ability
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.
Last Updated on January 1, 2021 by David Vause We drove through Denali National Park.
Last Updated on January 1, 2021 by David Vause Someone stopped by for breakfast.
Last Updated on January 1, 2021 by David Vause Trump’s voter fraud lawsuits have all failed. This underscores one fundamental fact about Trump. While his
Git her done.
Last Updated on December 19, 2020 by David Vause The NYT is reporting that while the deaths attributable to corona virus is 303,963, the death
Last Updated on December 16, 2020 by David Vause We had a heavy fog this morning. Normally, I go out of my way to get
Last Updated on December 16, 2020 by David Vause
Last Updated on December 16, 2020 by David Vause A treadmill beats not running at all. Two miles beats zero miles. A cute advertising slogan
I feel for those who struggle, whose numbers have grown so much in 2020.