Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
The Science appears to support making Standard Time, not Daylight Saving Time, permanent. Of course, governments are passing laws to make DST permanent – just wait ’til winter when kids…
See below for why I do not buy this: According to MacRumors, Apple is in the process of designing high-tech ‘contact lenses’ which will let you live in augmented reality…
Nice – the experts blame the public for not taking head injuries seriously: Bob Saget’s death — the result of a blow to the back of his head, according to…
Source: Muriel Lezak, Portland’s pioneering neuropsychologist and brain-injury expert, dies at 94 – oregonlive.com Having dealt with a 5″ skull fracture, and multiple additional knock out blows that in two…
Laughable: The founder of the world’s biggest plant-based meat company has suggested that a tax on meat could help tackle some of the problems from growing meat consumption. Source: Beyond…
This outside my usual interests but just saw that the dance company Pilobulus was in the news. In my tech career, I worked with one of the co-founders of this…
SIP = Shelter in Place In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries implemented social distancing and SIP policies. These policies are designed to slow COVID-19 transmission by limiting physical…
“The fact is that bicycling leads to the highest number of ER visits for traumatic brain injury in the U.S.,” he said. The threat to adults is especially dire.”With an…
For something unrelated, I was researching some of the “social benefits” programs in Norway. This is my summary of what I came across – which may be sort of accurate…
Saturday Afternoon Saturday, 3 pm: Pfizer BioNTech dose #2 administered for the vaccine. Mildly sore arm started within minutes. Saturday, 9 pm: instant onset of a feeling of malaise, like…