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Category Archives: Health

Gramps Gets Night Cramps

I not uncommonly fall asleep on the love seat in the front room at bedtime, especially if the wood stove is glowing and radiating sleepiness into the darkness. As usual, last night I woke up after an hour or so, and proceeded to head off to bed, after undressing. I was down to my Carhartt […]

Posted byfredApril 29, 2020April 29, 2020Posted inAging, Health2 Comments on Gramps Gets Night Cramps

To Mask or Not to Mask

There are many reasons now to err on the side of more precaution than less. Masks will bother you; they won’t harm you. And they might save your life.

Posted byfredMarch 31, 2020March 31, 2020Posted inHealth2 Comments on To Mask or Not to Mask

Contagion: Contained?

As a biologist, I’ve always been interested in epidemiology of disease, and as a zoologist, particular those that originate in wild or domestic animals. And so there has been quite a bit to keep up with regarding the zoonoses of the past few decades. And so the Wuhan Coronavirus is something I’m following daily, more […]

Posted byfredFebruary 3, 2020Posted inComputing, education, Health3 Comments on Contagion: Contained?

One Word, Benjamin: Plastics

This advice was innocent enough, in a smarmy and ominously-prescient sort of way when the “the graduate” got this insider tip so many decades ago. It was certainly the way the world of profit and growth were going, even then, on our way to a shrink-wrapped future. And woe to us, the tsunami of plastic […]

Posted byfredOctober 31, 2019Posted inEnvironment, Health, science1 Comment on One Word, Benjamin: Plastics

Saved by The MetaGenomics of Dirt

Below are some annotated bits from an article in Wired that describe the early successes in the battle to find weapons against the increasingly numerous and increasingly virulent microbes that are resistant to all known antibiotics. We worry about the Russians or the Chinese or the North Koreans or Dr Strangeloves in power around the […]

Posted byfredApril 4, 2018Posted inHealth, nature, PhotoImageLeave a comment on Saved by The MetaGenomics of Dirt

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