Gordon's Notes

Commentary: politics, science, technology and humanity. Secular humanist.

Sunday, June 13, 2021

Alzheimer's and Amyloid: How even a perfect aducanumab could help some and hurt others.

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Representational drift , if validated, tells us that a memory is a set of relationships, not the specific neurons that embody those relation...
Wednesday, June 09, 2021

Why did the patient's leg swell up?

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I'm a physician. Ok, so it's a very part-time practice; I'm mostly a bureaucrat trying to keep civilization together. Still I h...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

Mountain bikes have come a long way very quickly

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My trail bike is a 2010 Cannondale Scalpel I bought used. It was a state-of-the-art racing machine in the 26" era and it's light an...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

My prophylactic back exercise routine

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I wrote the original of this post in the early COVID era. Since then I expanded the basement home gym with a way over-specced power lifting ...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Weird world example: "virtual cameras" for online videoconferencing

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Somewhere in my twitter stream mention was made of the "virtual camera" and its advantages for videoconferencing especially as a r...
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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari - a brief review

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I'm a fairly average sleeper for my age, but this morning I gave up a bit before 4am. With the unexpected time I finished Yuval Harari...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Nordic skiing: Salomon SNS boot and binding compatibility - Profil vs Pilot

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I usually share my blog posts to Pinboard, and from there some creaky old services create tweets and an archive on kateva.org/sh. Not this p...
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Sunday, January 10, 2021

Biden's essential task is to help the Left Behind

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This is the last in a short series of post that  began on Nov 11, 2020 , shortly after Biden won the presidency for the first time. Back the...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

My 2015 post on why Trump was a sign of a healthy democracy

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I'm on the way to writing about what I think should be Biden's #2 priority (#1 is undoing Trump's executive orders). Three previ...

Monitoring the patient with chronic kidney disease -- my ABFM QI project criteria

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Every three years I have to do a quality improvement project to maintain my family medicine board status.  This year I decided to focus on m...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Biden's lost agenda

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In the Fall of 2020 the American people decided to dump Trump. Americans didn't agree on much else; voters rejected significant change. ...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

What is middle class and what percentage of American voters can't get there?

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What would make someone "middle class" in 2020? I like to think of this in terms of what a "middle class" 30 yo adult sh...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

How I think about the Trump voter and America

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A few days ago I listed about 25 reasons that Donald Trump should not be President . Any one of them is sufficient by itself. There are lots...
Friday, November 06, 2020

The Trump I remember

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It's Nov 6, 2020 and I believe Trump's presidency is ending. I look forward to forgetting him, but one day I'll be asked what al...
Friday, October 23, 2020

What I would add to the standard blog model

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The combination of RSS and the basic blog post is almost perfect. There are, however, a few things that would make them even better as a way...
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