Indiana University pediatrics professor Aaron Carroll MD offers on of the clearest succinct descriptions I’ve seen of the Senate Republicans’ latest attempt at a bill to “repeal and replace Obamacare” as they like to call it. Link: https://youtu.be/xa4dLts5nVw Medical organizations, … Continue reading
In this segment from early June Samantha Bee talks about cheap drug test kits used in the field by police that are generate a lot of false positives. In theory the kits are supposed to be be used only as … Continue reading
Net neutrality basically says that companies providing provide Internet access can make money charging for bandwidth, but they can’t use their monopoly power to extort extra payments from successful Internet businesses, large and small, by threatening to block or slow … Continue reading
On the outside chance you haven’t already seen this, here’s Andy Serkis reading several tweets from Donald Trump in the voice of Gollum on the July 12 episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Link: https://youtu.be/64mWOoj68qo by … Continue reading
A number of countries in the world have decided to set a minimum age of 18 or higher for both men and women, including China, Denmark, Egypt, Kenya, the Philippines, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, and Vietnam, among various others. (In … Continue reading
I hesitate to add to the cacophony over this, and by “this” I mean Donald Trump Junior’s confirmation that despite months of emphatic denials, very senior members of the Trump campaign were involved in efforts to get anti-Clinton information from … Continue reading
Every year Bill and Melinda Gates write a letter on behalf of their foundation reporting on world trends. This year they address it to Warren Buffet, the famously wealthy investor who in 2006 donated the bulk of his assets to … Continue reading
Hans Rosling, who died of pancreatic cancer 2017 February 7 at the age of 68, was professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. He was a gifted public speaker who specialized in correcting popular misconceptions, including pessimistic … Continue reading
Here’s Dr Aaron Carroll’s five-minute summary of the latest publicly released version of the Senate’s proposed healthcare changes. Link: https://youtu.be/IwJ8wkZ0EcQ If you’ve been keeping up with this, you’re probably already familiar with most of the bad news. Costs would rise … Continue reading
This past April 21 the North Carolina State Board of Elections released results of an audit (PDF) of illegal votes cast in the 2016 general election. The News & Observer of Raleigh provided a good summary the same day and … Continue reading