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...
Headline from a 2013 Wired story: Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals Are Most Likely to Reoffend (March 26, 2013)–not quite a Minority Report pre-crime scan, but a pre-release prediction from evidence of inmates’ reduced...
A healthy American economy should include healthy Americans. Yet most Americans are not healthy and suffer from a range of lifestyle-related health problems. Insulin resistance is now seen as the major underlying condition for...
Dr. Penny Figtree, decided “After 20 years in general practice [to] focus on weight loss and diabetes.” In Dr. Figtree’s compelling Low Carb Down Under video (Dr. Penny Figtree – ‘The Life of a...
Over the last year public health became the world’s number one public policy concern, and poor nutrition should have been at the center of discussion and debate. Past nutrition and public health posts share...
How many languish in federal prisons convicted of miscounting or mismeasuring fish? Of the tens of thousands of regulations that restrict entrepreneurs trying to work each day or build new enterprises in farming, dairy,...
Micah Meadowcroft calls for cutting Fifteen Pounds To Slow The Spread (The American Conservative, July 26, 2021). The title refers both to waistlines spreading across America and to spreading health problems, from chronic diseases...
Update: See Food Behind Bars Podcast episode “The Science” for discussion of prison nutrition research. High sugar, high-carb foods a key problem in prisons. Interviews Kimberly Wilson about her podcast series Crime and Nourishment....
For the Stoa policy topic how do USFG vs. NGO approaches compare? (U.S. Federal Government vs. Non-Government Organizations). Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform the use of Artificial Intelligence technology. In...
The CDC article Artificial Intelligence, Public Trust, and Public Health (CDC Genomics and Precision Health, September 17, 2020) explains: As part of the Data Modernization Initiative, CDC is supporting strategic innovations in data science using...
