The science news is discovery of a planet 4.25 light years away. Little is known about it other than it is in the “goldilocks” zone suitable for life. The media went crazy with this news but it shouldn’t have. It is clear the planet is so far away, any probe traveling less than the speed […]
Posted on August 26th, 2016 by admin
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There is little doubt pharmaceutical companies are sparking self-induced crises in their drug pricing policies. The latest uproar is over the EpiPen used by people with peanut and other severe allergies. The ingredients in the pen cost $10 but Mylan is selling the pens in packs of two for $600. The company has tried to justify its […]
Posted on August 25th, 2016 by admin
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In a usual election year, this kind of negative PR would be enough to sink a candidate. Not this year. Hillary Clinton should thank the Republican party for putting up a candidate with more negatives than she has. Although it is early, it is looking now like Clinton will sweep most of the states in […]
Posted on August 23rd, 2016 by admin
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It is a strange marketing and PR choice to ignore one’s best customers yet Volkswagen is doing it in the diesel engine scandal that has overtaken the company. The conglomerate has spent billions settling claims for cheating on its smaller motors, but it has yet to take any action on its larger power plants that […]
Posted on August 19th, 2016 by admin
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This video opinion piece explains why American train travel is so bad. Amtrak is caught in a bind not of its own making. Were it free to operate, it might cut back on money-losing long haul routes and concentrate on three-hour trips between major cities. This means it would be primarily an East Coast service […]
Posted on August 18th, 2016 by admin
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There has been a rise in pick-it-yourself farms and these have given a false perception of what it is to work in agriculture. Real farm work can be brutal and exhausting. There is no easy way to pick strawberries, for example, other than backbending labor that makes standing up agonizing. The pick-it-yourself farms minimize the […]
Posted on August 16th, 2016 by admin
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Why is it that politicians and business people forget the basics of the electronic world? By basics, I mean never writing anything in an e-mail or text message that you would not want to see in headlines. Here is another case of “Duh.” A governor’s aide writes to another person that e-mails would show the […]
Posted on August 15th, 2016 by admin
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Psychiatry is a profession in trouble. The public looks down on the field and accuses its doctors of being pill-pushers rather than diagnosticians. Yet, there is a need for them more than ever. Mental health is fragile in the stress of the modern era. There is depression, suicidal tendencies, angst of many sources, brain disease […]
Posted on August 12th, 2016 by admin
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On rare occasions one is dogged by writing that never seems finished. Consider, for example, a release that goes through — count ‘em — 17 versions. Each time one thinks it is done, there is a word change, a phrase subtracted, another phrase added and yet another round of approvals. This continues until it takes […]
Posted on August 11th, 2016 by admin
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Federal regulators, having found a correlation between vaping and cigarette smoking, have banned the sale of vaping products to minors. The e-cigarette lobby is pointing out that correlation is not causation and it is still uncertain that minors who vape first, smoke later. The correlation was close enough to causation for the FDA, which promulgated […]
Posted on August 10th, 2016 by admin
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