Posts Tagged ‘health’

Of all human customs, ritual ingestion of things that are (a) harmful (b) disgusting and/or (c) toxic is the most befuddling to me. Ethanol is the most typical example. Despite the fact that ingestion of mass quantities can lead to stupidity, pregnancy, death, public vomiting, and/or embarrassing YouTube videos, you twits still do it. But [...]

Viva La Robot! Stand aside, pesky humans, and make way for the robot arm. Little do you know, though. Not only are we now expertly removing malignant tissue from your neural ganglions, we’re reprogramming your gray matter while we do it. Soon your noodle will be like silly putty in our hands, with behavioral software [...]

Some people are up in a tizzy over an embryo that had some abnormalities corrected in the lab, thus paving the way for designer babies in the future. I don’t understand the relevance of the argument. Since most people get their understanding of science from movies, let’s recall Gattaca, where genetic apartheid discriminates against children [...]

I’ve gotten dangerously used to the rhythm at work, and sometimes that doesn’t translate well to the slightly less technical and efficient world outside the Silicon Valley. It’s the little things that trip me up, both in the über-high-tech and low-tech realms of my life.
Every day, I eat organic, locally grown, unrefined foods, three meals [...]