KALW just aired two pieces that I did on the rising rate of pregnancy related deaths and the black-white disparity. You can see a longer post from June. I’m hoping this will get more media attention – it’s a particularly … Continue reading →

Finished Daniel Botkin’s book “Discordant Harmonies” last night. It has a lot to offer, but what I’m most interested in is Botkin’s perspective on the trajectory of thought on nature. We start out with competing myths: The earth is a … Continue reading →

A series of studies have shown that being “overweight” makes you live longer. Slate has a good wrap up. This is the sort of thing that makes me want to abandon modern medicine and run off to the Alps with … Continue reading →

Virginia Postrel has posted a chapter from her book by this name – it’s a trenchant critique of Bill McKibben’s “The End of Nature” and others though she does spend a lot of time beating up McKibben. I learned a … Continue reading →

Just came across this from Mintel. Apparently the most common way to get you to buy a new food product is for manufacturers to put the word “natural” somewhere on the packaging. That word was used to sell almost a … Continue reading →

This weekend was Pride in San Francisco. In the morning Dan Choi gave a stirring speech (the three words that got him kicked out of the military, he said, were not “I am gay,” but “I love you”). Watching the … Continue reading →