The votes are in! The Earl of Avoirdupois, bear 747, is the 2020 Fat Bear Week Champion. No longer the runner-up, 747 fulfills the fate of the fat and fabulous as he heads off to hibernation. This year’s winner is a steely fluffball who weighs in at well over 1,400lbs. #FatBearWeek
Read More Fat Bear WeekLet’s look at implicit bias. All of us have implicit biases. Take Harvard’s Implicit Bias test HERE. Vox states, “According to a growing body of research and the researchers who created the test and maintain it at the Project Implicit website, the IAT is not good for predicting individual biases based on just one test. It requires a collection —…
Read More Implicit BiasI am nowhere near a doctor, although I was a Dr. Mom for many years. I don’t give medical advice. This is what I have in my baskets: bandages of different types and sizes thermometers (contactless and others) alcohol or sterile wipes disposable gloves disposable masks tweezers pulse oximeter blood pressure cuff sterile eye drops…
Read More What Do You Need in Your Home Health Kit?The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced today. Drs. Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice on Monday received the prize for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus. The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their discoveries that have bettered…
Read More 2020 Nobel Prize Winners: Full List (updated daily from NY Times)Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.To be…
Read More How To Choose Your LeadersI’ve had my flu shot and my pneumonia shot. Next, my shingles shot (shingles is a nasty, painful disease). Flu shot Tetanus (Td booster) Chicken pox Shingles Hepatitis A and/or B Pneumonia Read more HERE. Are you protected?
Read More Adult Vaccines: Protect YourselfIf you have a pre-existing condition, heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, they’re coming for you. If you love someone who has a pre-existing condition, they’re coming for you. If you are under the age of 26 on your parent’s coverage, they’re coming for you. senator kamala harris During the debate, Pence said it was an…
Read More Harris-Pence Debate Points That Stuck With Meby Rachel Nania, AARP, October 5, 2020 With several coronavirus vaccine candidates advancing to the third and final phase of clinical trials, researchers are ramping up their efforts to ensure that older adults are well represented among the tens of thousands of volunteers rolling up their sleeves to test the various vaccines. But boosting participation among…
Read More Pros and Cons of Participating in a Clinical TrialSeptember 29, 2020 5:01 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition Military names can echo down through the ages, a fact underlined by the current fight in Washington, D.C., between President Trump and Congress, which has voted to strip the names of Confederate generals from several Southern Army bases. The president has vowed that won’t happen, but…
Read More A Military 1st: A Supercarrier Is Named After An African American SailorThe US Supreme Court issued a ruling which reinstated the requirement that absentee voters obtain a witness signature on their mail-in envelopes. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, appointed to the court by the current president and supported by the current South Carolina senators, wrote the explanation for the court. US District Judge Childs prohibited, in September, the…
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