Saturday, March 21, 2015

The world needs a global heat map of nation-specific stress levels

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I new Russia was stressed, but I didn’t know it was this bad … G.M. Exiting Russia, for the Most Part - NYTimes.com … Because of the coll...
Thursday, March 05, 2015

Gordon's Laws of Acquisition updated: The Device Limit

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It wasn’t the MacBook Air’s SSD problem confounded by encryption usability problems and the “Update Needed” ghost user. [2] It wasn’t the c...
Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Dinitrophenol and obesity: The NYT's curiously sparse coverage from 1933 to 1938

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via Corante  I came across  Dinitrophenol and obesity: an early twentieth-century regulatory dilemma. - NCBI . It’s a modern article on a pr...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

IT and productivity - two noteworthy posts from Equitable Growth

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Brad DeLong , as best I can tell, does not lead the Washington Center for Equitable growth . Along with Nick Bunker he does, however, prod...
Saturday, February 07, 2015

Google and the Net 2015: The Quick, the Sick and the Dead - 7th edition

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I first published a Google Quick, Sick and Dead list in January 2009 , at the dawn of Dapocalypse . This was six months after the Battle of ...
Sunday, January 04, 2015

Canopy Economics and Eco-Econ

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I wrote my Canopy Economics post in 2004 , and “eco-econ” in 2014  ( see also ). I haven’t seen these concepts filter into the mainstream, t...

Dynamic stability: struggle and balance in minds, brains, genomes, pregnancy, politics, ecosystems and economies

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The minds we experience  are based on multiple overlapping, redundant and competitive brain systems (I don’t get the term “degeneracy” btw) ...
Thursday, January 01, 2015

Gene-environment interactions and the modesty of 2014 personalized medicine: Obesity, Reefer madness

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Between 2007 and 2008 my work life got unusually exciting. Most of the time I work on software development in well understood aspects of med...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Software died three years ago. Why?

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This is a weird time in software. Lots of things are going away, but few new things are appearing. As best I can tell Windows software died...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Where does all the time go - video training from SafeSports to corporate marketing.

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A few days ago The Economics published a long fluff piece on the allegedly modern malady of feeling we don’t have enough time — even though...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Anecdote - exercise and weight control. It takes a lot.

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This is pure anecdote, but it’s not inconsistent with the past decade of research. Once upon a time I used to advise patients to lose weigh...

Humbug - Amazon, Apple and Pottermore

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In the spirit of the season, which science tells us is Scrooge before his psychotic break, a call out to Amazon, Pottermore, and Apple. To ...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

The obsolete world of photo sharing

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I made another stab at sharing images to Facebook Groups. It didn’t go any better than my previous efforts. First I tried using Facebook’s ...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Learning new habits and skills - Pinboard, Simplenote, Toodledo and the skr tag

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Being new-old means learning to be deliberative about things that were once opportunistic. I used to get my exercise whenever I could — now...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Riots

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Over the past few decades developed world growth in wealth and income has been captured by a small segment of the population. Globalization...