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Without muscles, we could not move. The surface area of the intestines is as large as a tennis court. Without skin, all of our parts would fall out.

One of the better moments in the pandemic was when the public health advice suggested we get outside into the greater outdoors.

I am a huge fan of The Fourth Turning, a consideration of whether there is a cycle to history – are our times linear, circular, or, as they claim, spiral?

    “VUCA stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.

I just wrote the other day about willful ignorance, another of our human behaviors, so when I ran across this study in PNAS, I was curious about what they fo

I have mixed feelings toward self-checkout; perhaps you do too.

“In practical terms, “content creator” neatly accomplishes two things at once: It lets people who make garbage think they’re making art, and tells people who make art that they’re making garbage.”

     

Is the science behind vaccines valid? Some feel it is fatally flawed – vaccination places us all at greater risk than the diseases they were developed to prevent.

“What do government cheese, a war on emus, and chicken cannibalism have in common?