Housing and Urban Development
Choice two for the Stoa league this year is: Resolved: Housing and urban development policy should be substantially reformed in the United States. The brief discussion on the Stoa Spring Vote 2022 page notes...
Author: Gregory Rehmke
NCFCA TP: International research, import/export, eastern or southern Africa
Many interesting resolutions with great opportunities to learn, discuss, and debate. [Update: the import-export policy reform topic was chosen. Discussed in other posts.] Let’s start with Africa: “The United States Federal Government should substantially...
Biomedical Engineering or Normal Nutrition? (SS/Medicaid/Medicare)
The Stoa league debate topic and institutional bias for surgery [Also posted on NormalNutrition.substack.com here.] Biases (or preferences) are baked into institutions such as the National Institutes for Health. NIH fiscal year 2021 funding of...
Stoa Policy Choices: SS/Medicaid/Medicare Reform
Anthony Severin’s post for Ethos Debate discusses the Stoa policy choices for 2022-23: • Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform one or more of the following programs: Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare....
APEE: On Energy Balance Theory and Federal Dietary Guidelines
Today at APEE Conference I have short presentation on Public Health panel. Link here to Normal Nutrition post with draft of talk. And drawing from Goodman Institute Brief Analysis #142, discussed here: Overweight? Blame...
Artificial Intelligence for Medicine, Health, & Nutrition
For the Stoa A.I. topic (Resolved: The USFG should substantially reform the use of Artificial Intelligence technology), can improved A.I. advance health and medical care, including cancer and other disease research and therapies? And...
Better Nutrition for Federal Prisons
Poor nutrition following misguided Federal Dietary Guidelines contribute to impulsive and aggressive behavior in prisons A previous federal prison reform post, Time to Reform Unhealthy Federal Prison Food linked to various articles and podcasts...
Winter Holidays: Persistent Parties and Democracy, Genetic Engineering, Traditional Wives
For the online Winter Holidays Open, three motions have been announced: • In emerging democracies, this house would break up persistently dominant political parties. (rounds 1 and 2)• Assuming the technology exists, this house...
Federal Water Resources: Farming the Deep Blue Sea
Interested in starting a company likely to make millions while creating jobs and providing Americans with high-quality, nutritious, and tasty meals? Step one: take your entrepreneurial energy and investment capital to another country and...
Oyster Reefs Clean Water and Protect Coastal Resources
BigThink features a video by Mark Tercek of The Nature Conservancy, titled Green Infrastructure Outperforms Gray. I thought it might be about bicycle paths vs. roads or forests vs. gravel pits. Instead, the topic...