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The Post Office’s “Looping Problem”
The Post Office’s looping problem is crazy. It is totally ridiculous. It needs to be remedied now. I experienced this frustrating problem first hand when I mailed initial copies of my memoir, A Streak of Dakota Dust, to destinations across the country. What exactly is the problem? Thanks to using the tracking numbers provided by […]
Inflation: A Personal Lesson
Inflation: a personal lesson. Most of us get them from time to time, those faint echoes from the past that reveal how prices move up over time. My latest lesson came a few days after a house I once lived in was sold and cleaned out. Among the odd items that surfaced was a timeworn […]
Introducing A Streak of Dakota Dust
Introducing A Streak of Dakota Dust. I’m pleased to announce that my memoir is now available for pre-order and will be released on August 11. I’ll tell more about the book after we look at its cover. This memoir describes my early years during the Great Depression, a time remarkably different from today. As you […]
Help For Our Aging Memories?
Help for our aging memories? Yes, help may be on the way. A review published this month in JAMA Psychiatry (see here) suggests that an old drug, one that has been is use for 75 years, may slow the development of Alzheimer’s disease, as well as other forms of dementia, and even mild cognitive impairment. […]
Patients Evaluate GLP-1 Drugs
Patients evaluate GLP-1 drugs in a revealing article published online today in JAMA Open Network (See here). Thirty U.S. patients weighed in on what they experienced while taking one of the popular weight loss drugs. The study was performed by researchers from Stanford University and the University of Oxford. The experiences of these patients will […]
AI’s Dark Side
AI’s Dark Side. Artificial Intelligence has engulfed us. AI has a bright side. Many people love it, and with good reasons. But here we will examine AI’s dark side, one so dismal that some top scientists and engineers believe that AI could end our civilization as we know it. I’ve posted a few earlier opinions […]
Cannabis and Mental Health
Cannabis and Mental Health is the title of a review of the subject published online today in JAMA Internal Medicine. If you’ve wondered about possible benefits and undesirable side effects of pot, this may be an article for you. It’s lengthy and backed up by 126 references, plus tables, and a figure. I’ll provide a […]
Caffeine Reduces Dementia Risk
Caffeine reduces dementia risk according to a huge study published today in JAMA. Investigators at Harvard University analyzed the caffeine intake of 131,821 individuals (86,606 females, and 45,215 males) with a follow-up of up to 43 years. The researchers collected mounds of evidence indicating that consuming higher levels of caffeine (from coffee, tea, and other […]
New GLP-1 Drug Guidelines
New GLP-1 drug guidelines recently recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) were reviewed in a JAMA article published online a few days ago. One major point? Global obesity rates have been rising substantially for more than 30 years. But change is in the air! To illustrate: adult obesity in the US peaked at a […]
Theo of Golden: A Review
Theo of Golden: A Review. Do you know of this impressive novel and its unusual history? How unusual? Well, it was initially self-published in 2023 and sold over 170, 000 copies before a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster took over as publisher in November, 2025. The book, now on The New York Times bestseller list, […]
