New Year’s self-improvement! Tips on how to organize your life to as to improve your willpower.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Reports Of Patients’ Deaths Linked To Heart Devices Lurk Below Radar
Another KHN scoop on how the FDA has been hiding reports of bad outcomes with medical devices, in this case, ones for heart disease.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/27/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
The Loss of Fair Play
How the importance of at least pretending to be fair has eroded, and why that matters.
How Amazon Gains Control & Domination
Amazon takes over the last mile and everything else.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/26/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread
An Extremely Online Christmas Sampler
A Boxing Day unwrap-up of bright shiny objects
We Asked, You Answered: Here’s How The Climate Changed Your Lives In 2019
No matter where you live, climate change will find you
A Christmas Sampler
Dear patient readers, I was going to write a post about gift-giving but I had too many non-convergent ideas for it besides wanting to reminisce about my favorite childhood gifts, all for transportation! A sled, a Flexible Flier, which ironically introduced me to infinity (the Flexible Flier had a little image of a Flexible Flier […]
How Crisco Toppled Lard – and Made Americans Believers in Industrial food
How the successful marketing of Cricso led Americans to accept all sorts of mystery branded foods.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/24/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Los Angeles Times coverage. medical coding, reform grocery stores, holiday shipping, Disqus data debacle, Amazon, AirBnB, lost crops, climate change lawsuits, the sun, board games, Xmas round-up, super-yachts, statistical significance
