Photos of Scotland We spent a little less than week in Scotland in the summer of 2012 as an “add-on” from a another trip to London and Scandinavia. I wasn’t terribly well planned but was very enjoyable; funny how that works sometimes. The country is small but the winding roads off main routes mean distances …
Monthly Archives: April 2013
The shocking increase in federal disability payments
This American Life in coordination with Planet Money created a show which dives deep into structural issues related to employment which have been dogging the US (and frankly other wealthy western nations) for decades. As usual they do an excellent job crafting a riveting story about what can be a very dry subject. The number …
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Tweet: A ‘Whom Do You Hang With?’ Map Of America http://t…
A ‘Whom Do You Hang With?’ Map Of America http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/04/16/177512687/a-whom-do-you-hang-with-map-of-america
Myelin regrown in multiple sclerosis models
Per the UT: “Ordinary skin cells have been directly converted into the myelinating cells destroyed in multiple sclerosis, according to two new papers in Nature Biotechnology. This has huge potential and I really hope the research progresses well – MS is one of those diseases where there haven’t been a lot of breakthroughs yet. It …
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‘If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon’
‘If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon’ washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog…