Gordon's Notes

See also:  Arthritis - the feeds and queries (reference post) . There’s something problematic about human tendons and cartilage. A wide ran...

Our family loves our Google Calendars. Today, looking at Calendars 5.app on my iPhone , I see that our 5 (human) family members own 8 calend...

I researched alcoholic myopathy the other day. The results were appalling. There’s been very little research in the past 25-30 years, fundam...

Few remember this now, but once neurologists were proud of their ability to localize brain injuries based on complex and detailed examinatio...

The New York Times did a superb series this fall on how large corporations changed American law to neutralize a major consumer protection — ...

The health insurance industry is consolidating. Aetna acquired Humana and Anthem bought Cigna . That leaves UnitedHealth, Aetna and Anthem ...

Mature audiences only. Under 45 not admitted. You have been warned. I was 53 when I started my CrossFit hobby . That was almost 3 years a...

i’m collecting some data on how people do calendaring on their smartphones to support my  special needs smartphone for independent living  b...

If you’ve ever wondered why healthcare institutions can’t easily share data between computer systems, just take a look at Calendaring in iOS...

I feel like I’m tied to a railroad track, and see the light of the train approaching. And I don’t know if it’s one mile away, or 500.   Anon...

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...