Ringo at 75
This guy has found the fountain of youth: It’s certainly not from a lifetime of clean living, although he went on the wagon in 1988: Starr was the only Beatle who accepted the presence of Yoko Ono and when the … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Health
The ugly truth is…
…that most of us don’t floss. I happen to be one of the world’s champion flossers. Perhaps that’s because I have a pretty complex dental situation. I have two congenitally missing teeth—a canine and a bicuspid—as well as a root … Continue reading →
Peter Singer and the trap of logic: Part I
Disability activists would very much like to see Princeton University bioethics professor Peter Singer lose his job. The reason is fairly obvious: Singer advocates the killing of disabled infants if the parents request it. What’s less obvious is why Singer … Continue reading →
Belgium slides further and further…
…down the slippery slope of euthanasia.
Continue reading →A teenage shark victim with attitude
A good attitude, I might add. Just two days after the terrible moment when a shark bit off his arm, and after surgeons cleaned up the traumatic amputation and made it a surgical one, 16-year-old Hunter Treschl had this to … Continue reading →
Jenner and Penner
Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner refers to his/her state as “the new normal,” but transgenderism is actually quite unusual in the statistical sense, and it’s a poorly understood phenomenon as well. Some people think transgendered people are mentally disturbed, and some think they … Continue reading →
Make a muscle
Old people—especially really old people in their upper 90s—who seem otherwise healthy, can become highly debilitated due to a mysterious wasting that happens to a great many of them as they approach advanced old age. It’s called sarcopenia, and although … Continue reading →
What might you be doing at 92?
Harriette Thompson is running a marathon. An activity she didn’t begin till she was 76.
Continue reading →Here’s an amazing young woman
She has a host of other videos dedicated to explaining blindness and how she copes (including some that show her applying makeup with an expert touch). I haven’t watched most of them, but her attitude and ability to articulate her … Continue reading →
Freddie Gray’s cause of death
I have been trying to find some very specific information on what the medical report on Freddie Gray actually said. But other than that there was a neck fracture, that he had a head injury that may have been caused … Continue reading →
My brain made me do it!
Everyone who diets knows how hard it can be. Here’s another discovery that, if true, shows one of the many reasons why: He explains that these [specialized AGRP] neurons read circulating signals in the blood to detect when an animal … Continue reading →
How did Freddie Gray sustain a severe neck injury?
Freddie Gray died of a very severe spinal cord injury. But how he sustained that injury is unknown, and that is an all-important question. Like many of the men in recent incidents where police treatment of black men have gotten … Continue reading →