A Serious Cellular Conversation

Hello.  Allow me to introduce myself.  I’m a human cell.  You won’t recognize me because you’ve never seen me before. I’m normally about 1/10th the diameter of a human hair. I’ve blown myself up a couple of million times to be able to spend some time with you because, frankly, we need to talk. I […]

Retirement worse than smoking?  Maybe.

    This should make you stop and cogitate a bit:  the health risk of prolonged isolation is equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. That’s according to the AARP Foundation.  I didn’t know AARP was doing that kind of deep biological, bio-scientific research.  But who’s going to doubt the mighty AARP?  Warren Buffett proved […]

Sirloin, with a side-order of guilt.

I’m 75 and I have cardiovascular disease. I was a meat-eater for 60+ of those years. Are they connected?  Well, yeah – not much doubt. If you are over 60, and beef, pork, chicken, oils of any type have been a part of your diet over the years – even a small portion – chances […]

What’s Your Second Number?

Let’s try a little project.  Take note of these two numbers:  27,720 and 13,373. The first number is the number of days, as of this writing (2/17/2018), that I have been alive.  That’s 39,916,800+ minutes, 2,395,000,000+ seconds.  Rather sobering numbers, wouldn’t you agree?  If you think they are sobering, you should see them from this […]

Are You Prepared for the Inevitable Loss of Your Job?

  “Companies now have to be on a war footing. They need to learn about technology advances and see themselves as a technology startup in Silicon Valley would: as a juicy target for disruption. They have to realize that the threat may arise in any industry, with any new technology. Companies need all hands on […]

How’s Your Corpus Callosum?

      I knew it!  There had to be a plausible reason to justify my keeping two guitars within eight feet of my office desk and a legitimate explanation for my inability to resist playing one or the other a couple of times a day. I now have an excuse for when my wife […]