What's wrong with Katherine Bouton's review of "Life among the Neanderthals"
What's wrong with a book review entitled “Life among the Neanderthals” by Katherine Bouton (International Herald Tribune, Dec. 30, 2011)
I originally...
Beach Access for Everyone: Jurisprudence & Parables
Beach Access for Everyone:
A Parable from the Martha’s Vineyard Times & Vineyard Gazette
The following Letter to the Editor appeared:
on...
Saving Concord's Darwinian & Abolitionist landmark, where Thoreau met John Brown
Save the house where Thoreau conspired with John Brown
and was among the first Americans
to read Darwin’s "Origin of the Species"
An appeal...
Should cachexia equal morbidity? Medicine's biggest blind spot.
The Biggest Blind Spot in Modern Medicine
only kills 7 million people a year
(This blog was originally posted on Nov. 4, 2019*)
Duncan...
Snippets & Outbursts
This blog will grow in unpredictable bursts, since it’s the place where I’ll post rebuttals, warnings, and short essays about things that have aroused my indignation. But it will also be a grab-bag full of surprises, since I plan on changing the pace by weaving
- comedy,
- discoveries,
- tips about visiting prehistoric sites,
- and anything else that grabs my fancy (as long as my internal editor approves) into the mix.
The most important post so far is the one about the failure of the medical system to focus on finding ways of managing or curing cachexia, which kills at least 132,000 Americans every year.
