Is It Time to Eat Your Fruit and Veg? Consider. Humans adults have a 30 foot gut. Within it live 100 trillion bacteria. Dogs have a six foot gut. Why are dogs so foreshortened? The tale lies not in the tail or the untailed. It’s about what you eat. The Omnivore’s Opportunity There’s […]
Cheap, Beautiful Skin (4/28/14)
Just Beautiful What does a $46 billion hostile stock offer for a drug/cosmetics company have in common with physical exercise? Could it be that the office lobby of the company making the offer is a basketball court? No. It’s that both options promise healthy, beautiful looking skin. Though at very different prices. Valeant Pharmaceutical […]
Driving Through Sleep (4/21/14)
Transport and Sleep Chance can kill you. So can sleepiness. People on the Metro-North commuter train into Manhattan were expecting a normal trip one morning last December. Until something “abnormal” occurred. At 7:20 AM, the train turned into a thirty mile an hour flying at 82 miles per hour. They were heading towards Spuyten […]
Chancing It (3/31/14)
Chances Are… Does time control life? Or does chance? Items: – A famous calligrapher, you settle into your airplane’s aisle seat and pull out your pen. It’s a poor substitute for the brush, but you have many notes of thanks to write. Chinese calligraphy is one of the world’s great art forms. Actively collected and […]
Dying for Sleep (3/24/14)
Sleeplessness Can sleep loss kill brain cells? Yes. Like the kind when I pull an all-nighter for school or work? Yes – if you are a mouse. So why should I care? Because if similar events befall people, you may really want to protect your sleep time – or at least how long you stay […]