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Military Veteran Deaths Went Up In 2020 As You’d Expect, But Less Than The General Population

Posted by on Nov 11, 2021 in Public Health | Comments Off on Military Veteran Deaths Went Up In 2020 As You’d Expect, But Less Than The General Population

Suicides and other mental health issues, as well as general deaths, went up during the pandemic in 2020 and veterans were not excluded. But they fared better than the general population, which is good news for Veteran's Day.

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Electric Car Batteries Are An Expensive, Energy Intensive Headache To Recycle – And That Is Not Going Away

Posted by on Nov 10, 2021 in Energy | Comments Off on Electric Car Batteries Are An Expensive, Energy Intensive Headache To Recycle – And That Is Not Going Away

Riding a wave of government mandates and subsidies, and ignoring that fossil fuel usage to create electricity is identical to what it was before a trillion dollars in additional subsidies for solar and wind alternatives, electric cars are now everywhere.

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Suspect Correlation: Eating Alone Linked To Heart Attacks In Women

Posted by on Nov 3, 2021 in Public Health | Comments Off on Suspect Correlation: Eating Alone Linked To Heart Attacks In Women

If we want people to trust disease epidemiologists during the COVID-19 pandemic - and the next pandemic after that, since this was the third one of just coronavirus in 17 years - then we have to start holding suspect epidemiologists accountable.

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Suspect Correlation: Eating Alone Linked To Heart Attacks In Women

Posted by on Nov 3, 2021 in Public Health | Comments Off on Suspect Correlation: Eating Alone Linked To Heart Attacks In Women

If we want people to trust disease epidemiologists during the COVID-19 pandemic - and the next pandemic after that, since this was the third one of just coronavirus in 17 years - then we have to start holding suspect epidemiologists accountable.

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4 Reasons To Let This Halloween Be A Treat For Kids

Posted by on Oct 29, 2021 in Psychology | Comments Off on 4 Reasons To Let This Halloween Be A Treat For Kids

Children have a higher tolerance for thrills than most parents believe.  In 1989, when Disney returned to form with "The Little Mermaid", Ursula was among the scariest villains ever. She got impaled by the mast of a ship. That didn't bother kids a bit.

It's more often parents that are overthinking this stuff. I am not saying you should hand your 6-year-old a "Saw" DVD but for the second consecutive year we'll the usual apocalyptic worry about sugary treats plus concern about COVID-19. They'll be okay on both counts. 

Here are 3 reasons why we as a society need to dial it down on Sunday, and maybe every day after that. 

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Facial Recognition Is Finally Raising Questions About Government Accountability

Posted by on Oct 15, 2021 in Technology | Comments Off on Facial Recognition Is Finally Raising Questions About Government Accountability

For most of this century, anyone in London has been photographed and filmed an average of 300 times each day. Their reasoning to start such intrusive scrutiny was that England, Wales, and Scotland led the developed world in crime, and a tourist attraction like London needed extra monitoring.

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We Were Wrong About Daniel Craig As James Bond, Maybe We Were Wrong About His Stress Relief Also

Posted by on Oct 8, 2021 in Psychology | Comments Off on We Were Wrong About Daniel Craig As James Bond, Maybe We Were Wrong About His Stress Relief Also

When Daniel Craig was announced as the new James Bond, he took a lot of criticism. I will be honest, I was among the critics. I have read every book, seen all the films, I wear both Charvet and Turnbull  &  Asser shirts for no other reason than they were in the books (the French brand for villains, naturally, and then Turnbull for the man himself) and I was firmly on Team Clive Owen for the role.

Craig was clearly a Sean Connery and not a Roger Moore, who was most like the Eton-schooled Bond in the books. He was too short but author Ian Fleming was creating an idealized version of himself, much like Dan Brown fictionalized himself as an Indiana Jones for art history majors, yet I conceded there is no reason all spies had to be 6 feet and up. 

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Hunting And Conservation: Why Environmentalists Should Be Allies

Posted by on Oct 7, 2021 in Environment | Comments Off on Hunting And Conservation: Why Environmentalists Should Be Allies

In the modern environmental era, activists are mostly among a political tribe that opposes activities like hunting but they should not be. Hunters, fishers, and others are terrific stewards of nature and a natural world humans are banned from experiencing is a natural world that loses funding. Activists should want people experiencing nature.

Hunters are terrific allies. A new estimate finds that hunting also reduces CO2 emissions.



My approval of hunting is tempered with the same reality for why the organic backyard gardens of Dave Goulson or Michael Pollan are not sustainable for the public.

Here are 3 reasons to be skeptical

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Hunting And Conservation: Why Environmentalists Should Be Allies

Posted by on Oct 7, 2021 in Environment | Comments Off on Hunting And Conservation: Why Environmentalists Should Be Allies

In the modern environmental era, activists are mostly among a political tribe that opposes activities like hunting but they should not be. Hunters, fishers, and others are terrific stewards of nature and a natural world humans are banned from experiencing is a natural world that loses funding. Activists should want people experiencing nature.

Hunters are terrific allies. A new estimate finds that hunting also reduces CO2 emissions.



My approval of hunting is tempered with the same reality for why the organic backyard gardens of Dave Goulson or Michael Pollan are not sustainable for the public.

Here are 3 reasons to be skeptical

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War On Vaccines: Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine Claims A Vegetarian Diet Makes COVID-19 Mortality Drop

Posted by on Oct 6, 2021 in Public Health | Comments Off on War On Vaccines: Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine Claims A Vegetarian Diet Makes COVID-19 Mortality Drop

The animal right group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has an op-ed in American Journal of Medicine claiming that if you want the COVID-19 vaccine to work 'better', whatever that is supposed to mean, adopt a vegetarian diet.

It's easy to dunk on people taking ivermectin, they are dumb Republicans according to science-y Twitter, but this kind of nonsense is just as reckless if we want the public to trust science. I certainly would not want to visit Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, where the lead author of the opinion piece teaches.

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