When the Past Is Prologue Humans don’t see threats until they’re kicking at the door. But that does not mean you can’t put a crisis to good use. Chance rules the world. As Nassim Taleb showed in “The Black Swan” and other books, low probability events can create high impacts. But the threat to the […]
Regeneration Health, For You and the Environment (9/29/14)
Regeneration: Can helping myself aid the environment? Yes. At last week’s global climate summit, Chinese and American diplomats sat down and agreed. Both nations must work together to prevent further climate shifts. Demonstrators in over 2000 sites worldwide agreed. Companies and cities, churches and Communists agree. Many now argue combating global climate change can increase […]
Civilizational Obesity (1/20/14)
The Weight of Progress Life has improved for lots of people. Economic development and globalization has brought many out of poverty. Kenyan farmers shop and bank with their cell phones. Hundreds of millions of Chinese have moved from the impoverishment of the Cultural Revolution to high levels of education and ambitious middle class lives. As […]
What Will Create the Next Epidemic? (10/8/12)
Meningitis, Salmonella, and… Meningitis arrives through contaminated spinal steroid injections by pain specialists. Salmonella infects hundreds of Americans via Dutch smoked salmon sold by Cisco. Dozens die. People are again unnerved by infection. Will there be a new form of AIDS, or SARS, or something truly unknown coming to kill us? And what will we […]
Social health – getting you and the economy better (4/24/12)
Health and Economics Out of 33 countries considered to possess a “developed” economy, there is one that does not have universal health coverage. That country is the US. Historians argue why we are such an outlier. Not only do we not possess universal health care coverage, but national policies rarely reward health as the goal […]