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It is possible to find good food in North America but it’s expensive, thin on the ground and crusted around the edge of the continent. You won’t find it on the interstates, where fast food chains reign. Here food is assembled rather than cooked, portion control is king...
At the sweet-smelling University of Cologne, elegant work with the nematode C elegans recently showed (1) that switching the worm temperature to cool activates proteasomes. These tiny barrel-shaped structures, present in all cells, are essential for protein quality control and therefore life. Protein production is a complex process with...
Dear readers, I am writing to inform you of a forthcoming pause in my regular posts. Over the next few weeks I will share three or four more articles before stepping away towards the end of November to work on a collaborative project with a gaggle of economists....
W.H.O. Panjandrum Ted Ghebreyesus recently declared Monkeypox to be a public health emergency of international concern. The 2022 outbreak was linked to 140 deaths worldwide (a mortality rate of approximately 0.04%) and the new strain, which is described as being more dangerous and which is emerging just a...
In supplemental circles, omega-6 fatty acids are not very popular. They have been linked to chronic inflammation, and all the many health conditions driven by chronic inflammation. The fact that so many of these diseases have increased - by up to 10-fold since 1900 (ie 1) - roughly...
There are difficult children, and there are children with conduct disorder (CD). CD is defined as a consistent pattern of severely antisocial and aggressive behaviors. If the kid from next door bullies others, kicks the cat, lies, steals and uses drugs and/or alcohol, you may have a CD...
Where does free will stop, and frittata begin? Last week during gaps between appointments I reviewed a few old posts and started to doubt the dubito cogito sum I borrowed for the recent sundowner article (1). Descartes was describing the autonomy of reason, but from there by easy...
One far-off June I drove south from Marquette in the UP down to Kalamazoo, then turned southwest to Champaign. Instead of an 8-hour sprint across the Interstates I navigated 23 hours of blacktop and chert backroads, tacking through green oceans of corn, corn, soy, soy and corn. These...
The photo is a colored scanning electron micrograph of the epidermis, the outermost layer of the skin you see, at lower magnification, when you look in the mirror. It consists of dead cells, so anti-ageing cosmeceuticals do not work here. They work in the deeper tissues, and they...
Freshly caught fish are one of life’s primeval pleasures. For most inland consumers, however, fish must be preserved before it can be served. It might not be an obvious question, but how is preserving done? And could it be done better? I fly too frequently, and have left...