Gordon's Notes

The extremophiles  are at home in near boiling water and the deep crust of the earth. Every ecological niche is colonized by life; and life ...

Adult ice hockey is a new hobby. Unsurprisingly there are lots of adult no-checking leagues in the Twin Cities,  JMS Hockey  is the one I we...

Our car stereo died a few weeks ago. Wire cutter  liked a model that seemed to fit our needs, the Pioneer DEH-X6800BT  ( Owners manual , I s...

The immune system is an impossible, incomprehensible, machine. It is not even a ’system’ — evolution is not so modular. We name it as a thin...

One of my big disappointments of past 15 years is absence of falsifiable models of factors that create and sustain Daesh and kin.  Anthropol...

Want to double check your doctor’s approach to your cholesterol problem? Try this Family Practice Notebook (FPN) entry … Hypercholesterol...

XKCD ’s Randall Munroe , the notorious interstellar  sAI , has published a simplified vocabulary explanation of Special and General Relativi...

Bicycling Magazine has a surprisingly strong article aimed especially at mountain biker riding solo: 7 Things EMTs Wish You Knew about Bik...

From today’s NYT Health section: Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans. Gina Kolata Nov 2, 2015 … middle-aged white American...

WaPo has a delightfully meta-subversive headline for an article about the failings of 21st century capitalism:  This Kardashian headline sho...

I’ve been digging into thunderbolt 2 lately. It’s an orphan technology — sure looks like Apple has given up on it. In retrospect either App...

Apple made bazillions again. They won’t pay corporate tax on it. The share price has gone up. That’s good for me in one way — I own index f...

In my mail this morning… During a machine transition I reinstalled Quicken 2015, so I at first thought we’d unwittingly enabled Quicken Mo...

While studying for my 2009 American Family Medicine board exams I wrote up a summary of the American Academy of Family Practice’s preventive...

This year has been a different year. By circumstance not of my choosing, but not displeasing, I’ve more personal time than usual, but also, ...