What Makes People Unable to Rest Economically, it’s scary out there. Though unemployment figures declined last week, most people know the data are heavily massaged. In the old days a part time worker was included in the statistics if they worked an hour a month in a family business – without pay. In our local […]
Why can’t I rest Part 2 – how to not worry about sleep (1/4/11)
Feeling Restless Today, many feel restless and tired much of the time. Partly this is due to people’s thinking that only one kind of rest exists – passive rest – sleep and “doing nothing.” Active rest, especially physical and social rest, is available to most everyone and can be used to quickly you. Yet paradoxically […]
You think you’re covered? The health insurance pre-authorization con (12/21/10)
Pre-Authorize Your Life Over many years the health insurance industry has labored to perfect methods that obstruct sensible use of medical services. As their abilities improve we should expect worsening care, higher prices, and a poorly served, frustrated population – including you. Here’s just one very small but instructive example of how insurance obstruction works […]
Fixing your internet addled brain (12/17/10)
Keeping the Mind Sharp Are you going to quit using the Internet? Come on! So what if unrestricted Net action will physically change your brain and body, dimming your analytic ability (see Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows”), negate the long-term memory stores you’ll need to succeed in life (see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-edlund-md/add-symptoms_b_656590.html#s119840,) and potentially make you fat, thick, […]
How the Internet will change your body – Part IV – Making the Net improve your health (12/2/10)
Plan 1 – Make Mobile Computing Truly Mobile Internet providers happily point out that the Net now goes everywhere – with the possible exception of extra-planetary outer space. You can watch narwhals piercing the Arctic ice sheet while you argue with your health insurance provider about your massively increased medical bills. So why not walk […]