Crowd Pleasing
Humans are incredibly adaptable. We do all kinds of crazy stuff to ourselves, buy into all kinds of crazy ideas, and come out the other side just fine. I flew across nine time zones last Friday, and...
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Designer DNA Dinged
Who says scientists and writers can’t play God? My sister recently alerted me to a story in which science and literature intersect in a very bizarre way. It’s weird enough that I thought I’d pass it...
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Saturday I wrote a post about how I wasn’t aware of what was going on in my body, and how unsettling that felt. So unsettling, in fact, that I wasn’t able to write the post I had been planning for...
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Inspiration
“There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.” – Pink Floyd Where do ideas come from? How many of us wake up in the morning and say, “Gee, I think I’m gonna to have myself a great idea today!”? Not me....
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10 reasons not to wear a tie
I was chatting with Dave this morning, and he mentioned he had an important meeting at work. So you’ll be putting on a tie? I typed. Morning humor. I’ll wear a nice shirt, but no tie, he responded....
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How to Swiss kiss
Bonjour! (Kiss, kiss, kiss)* Hey! (hug) Hello. Nice to meet you. (right hand extended, waist level) * language and number of kisses may vary These appear to be the accepted Western greeting rituals....
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Fold It!
As I stand in the Lausanne train station holding a sign saying “Marcel,” the volume of passengers from platform 8 dwindles from a steady flow to a trickle to a stop. He probably exited the other end of...
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10 reasons to get a good night’s sleep
Today is world sleep day. In celebration, I urge you all to drop everything and take a nap. As I mentioned back in April last year, research has shown that getting 8 hours of sleep a night is important...
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Let the conversation begin
Wow. It looks like I should turn this into a running blog, if the number of page views I got from that last post is any indication. Thanks for stopping by! Or maybe people just liked the image of me as...
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Holy hairballs, Batman! It’s not junk after all!
Greetings from hibernation nation. I did say I’d come out if something really big happened. Guess what? One of my current scientific obsessions was Big News today! No, don’t go away – it’s not the...
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The One-body Problem
Hello, December. What happened to November? All of October I was busy with the Yoga Project, happily scribing away my impressions, downward-dogging my way into a new yoga comfort zone. And then it...
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Reality check
Think for a minute: When was your last existential crisis? Who, me? you say. Existential crisis? I don’t have existential crises. I’m a rational thinker. I’m practically an engineer. I think everybody...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing, Part III
Saturday I wrote a post about how I wasn’t aware of what was going on in my body, and how unsettling that felt. So unsettling, in fact, that I wasn’t able to write the post I had been planning for...
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Inspiration
“There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.” – Pink Floyd Where do ideas come from? How many of us wake up in the morning and say, “Gee, I think I’m gonna to have myself a great idea today!”? Not me....
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10 reasons not to wear a tie
I was chatting with Dave this morning, and he mentioned he had an important meeting at work. So you’ll be putting on a tie? I typed. Morning humor. I’ll wear a nice shirt, but no tie, he responded....
View ArticleHow to Swiss kiss
Bonjour! (Kiss, kiss, kiss)* Hey! (hug) Hello. Nice to meet you. (right hand extended, waist level) * language and number of kisses may vary These appear to be the accepted Western greeting rituals....
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Fold It!
As I stand in the Lausanne train station holding a sign saying “Marcel,” the volume of passengers from platform 8 dwindles from a steady flow to a trickle to a stop. He probably exited the other end of...
View Article10 reasons to get a good night’s sleep
Today is world sleep day. In celebration, I urge you all to drop everything and take a nap. As I mentioned back in April last year, research has shown that getting 8 hours of sleep a night is important...
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The 5 best reasons to go out for a run
… 0r a walk, this applies to both. In order of importance: Because you can. You have two legs and springy Achilles tendons for a reason: humans are built for running. If you don’t believe me, go read...
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Eat sh*t and … thrive!
It has been a while since I’ve used this space to educate you about the incredibleness of the microbiome and the looming bacterial takeover of the planet. But the mainstream media is fully on board...
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