Xe and Thee
OnThe six elements in the far-right column of the periodic table (1), a table first constructed by my maternal great-granduncle...
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Sleeping with Darth
OnCPAP stands for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure. Lord Vader sounds like a man wearing a 20th century CPAP device, and...
Wasted on the Young
OnHaving graduated by stages from the turbulent sexual vectors of youth to the detachment of old age, I currently survey...
A Place for Everything …
OnMulticellular organisms like you and me have a complex and shifting relationship with microbes. We need the right amounts of...
Controlled Flight into Terrain
OnThe darkest hour is just before dawn. And that’s when the trouble really starts. Previous posts looked at the decline...
The Knee Thing
OnTeamster boss Jimmy Hoffa is either under a Jersey City landfill, a barn in the Detroit suburbs, the turf of...
Why I hate supplements
OnIn medieval times, relics were the thing if you wanted to stay well. Some opted for fragments of the bones...
Peto’s Pets
OnPeto’s Paradox (1), named after the great epidemiologist and statistician Sir Richard Peto, is well known in cancer circles. If...
The Politically Correct Diet
OnThe period formerly known as the Dutch Golden Age, which ran through much of the 17th century, was a golden...