The Nature of Intelligence Item: Put people in rooms where carbon dioxide is more than 600 ppm and watch analytic reasoning and thinking decline. Higher levels – dumber answers. If present trends continue, global levels may hit 1000 ppm at the end of the century. Everywhere. Item: Cognitive decline is accelerated when people don’t physically […]
Treating Information as Food (5/30/12)
Food is Information, Information is Food Your body runs on information. Think of your body as an information processor and how it works starts to fall into focus. Food as information has many forms. There are proteins and calories, fats and sugars. Yet there are innumerable information packed chemicals in food, ranging from vitamins to […]
“Healthy Without Health Insurance” – 12 Points
Getting Healthy – A Simple Way Now that “Healthy Without Health Insurance” is out on Kindle, people keep asking me what it’s about. I tell them it’s about getting healthy simply, cheaply, and effectively. I also tell them it has a new paradigm for real health and well-being – that if you give your body […]
Privacy and profit – how health care records get used (3/7/12)
The Death of Privacy Privacy is dead – so we hear. Somewhere on the Net lies all the data on you ever uploaded. Much of that information is now going into the cloud – to servers all over the world. Now here’s the story of one Tennessee teacher. She was unhappy with School Board policies, […]
To win the game you stay in the game – football and flexibility (12/27/11)
Preventing Injury Football can be a brutal, even lethal sport. But you can’t win games if players get injured. Which happens all the time. The results are obvious in high school and college teams – “take out” a key opposing player through injuries and you have a much easier time winning. Yet NFL players know […]
