Category: Health
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Hype, Hope, and Hard Truths: What Smil Teaches Us About Innovation
I am a fan of Bill Gates. His solutions to some of the world’s greatest problems are thoughtful and interesting and on a grand scale. Not solutions available at a personal level. One of his favorite authors is Vaclav Smil, which prompted me to read this book. In Invention and Innovation, Vaclav Smil slices through…
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🌿 Hyssop: The Sacred Herb with Healing Power
A few years back, I enjoyed making mead. My son, who also makes mead, suggested using hyssop in my mead. I also noticed at the store of a Bucks County PA distillery, hyssop-infused bourbon. I tried unsuccessfully for a few years to grow it, but last year I finally got it to grow. I did…
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Slow-Carb Diet: Make Your Own Vinaigrette
I generally follow the slow-carb diet as prescribed by Tim Ferriss in The 4-hour Body. When using salad dressings, I try to use no sugar varieties, and especially with no sugar added. These have been almost exclusively store-bought and almost always use seed oils. To avoid these, I thought I would start making my own,…
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Blue Mars
I recently read Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. From the highlights I made, gardening and terraforming, including ecopoiesis, dominated. According to NASA, “Ecopoiesis is the concept of initiating life in a new place; more precisely, the creation of an ecosystem capable of supporting life. It is the concept of initiating “terraforming” using physical, chemical…
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Comfort Zone
I had a free morning today, with the family not arriving until lunch. I decided to take the kayak out for the first time. I was anxious about it, as I had been whenever I thought I should take it out. It is out of my comfort zone. I did take it out and it…
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Aging
Ryan North, in his book “How to Take Over the World”, on page 225 says “‘Old age’ is not what kills you; it’s cancer or heart disease or Alzheimer’s or pneumonia or one of the hundreds of other ailments, diseases, and infections we’ve identified and named …”. David Sinclair, in his book Lifespan: “Why We…
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Exercise
1/30/2022:Today my wife and I are going skiing with my son and granddaughter (age 3) here in Vermont. My wife and son are excellent skiers and my granddaughter has been taking lessons and loves to ski. This will be the first time being with her skiing. I have had a double knee replacement and since…
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