Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin passed away recently. In my teens I read nearly all her science fiction novels, and have read the Earthsea Trilogy many times since. The essay below (revised here) was...
An earlier post spoke of a “distant metabolic gift” that people today in rich societies struggle with. For many thousands of years the struggle was to survive winters. So the metabolic systems of humans,...
by Marina Tanase (author of earlier posts, More on Globalization – Covid and its effects and The Real Story of Globalization) If one were to ask me why I decided to write this article...
A challenge for modern medicine: Most accepted medical treatments and surgeries lack evidence for being effective: According to the analysis, which analyzed evidence for thousands of medical treatments, there was “evidence of some benefit” for slightly more than 40% of the treatments,...
From Unlucky Prehistoric Geography to Unfortunate Institutions TodayGregory Rehmke Presented at APEE Session: “Cultural and Geographic Links to Economic Growth.” April 8, 2002 Until very recently the only way people could get to Argentina...
by Marina Tanase [Follow-up to popular earlier post by Marina Tanase, The Real Story of Globalization.] Here I am …- me again. I find myself writing one more time about globalization. My interest in...
My new book could be titled: Don’t Diet: Research Nutrition. Diet programs and fads attract millions wishing to lose weight, with billions spent on weight loss goods and services (see The $72 Billion Weight Loss & Diet...
With much of middle America frozen, it’s worth reflecting in energy policy, last year’s NCFCA policy debate topic. Below is update of 2019 post on The Energy Race. (Also this 2018 Energy Race post...
A previous post on migration emphasized the importance of measuring economic freedom to judge policy reforms effective in reducing barriers to enterprise and prosperity. In that post Economic Freedom Indexes were recommended as tools...
Notes below from Facebook posts on nutrition, public health, and the pandemic. Most Americans have poor metabolic health from poor nutrition (study finds only 1 in 8 are metabolically healthy). Links below to articles,...
