Cheating death everyday Gallup Poll, a surveyor of American public opinion since 1935, is now reporting that the greatest fear of more than a third of Americans is that they will be […]
The disconnect
Dementia
Trump, traffic and your brain With an increasing number of medical studies linking cortisol spikes to cognitive decline, one sort of has to wonder if President Donald Trump and American motor vehicles […]
It’s no ‘accident’
The real reasons pedestrians die An urban planner turned internet content provider did a deep dive into why pedestrian deaths in the U.S. rose 72 percent faster than both population growth and […]
Healthy fear
A lesson from the pandemic A study published this week by the Journal of the American Medical Association’s (JAMA) Open Network is reporting that the rollout of the first Covid-19 vaccines in […]
Forgotten medicine
The answer is out there…. What if scientists created a medicine that lengthened lives, cut the risk of dying from heart disease by approximately a third, reduced the risk of developing cancer by more […]
Good intentions
And the wreck of science Confidence in scientists, which slipped in this country during the Covid-19 pandemic, is reported to be climbing once again, but you have to wonder why. Not because […]
Never learn
At least gas is still available Fifty-two years after Americans should have learned the danger of letting machines dictate the design of their cities and the way they live, people across […]
American wreckage
The biggest issue plaguing the U.S. Imagine an automotive industry that sold cars and trucks with no recommendations as to oil changes or other servicing, so that motor vehicles would start breaking […]
Tough folks
The dogless Iditarod marches north America might today be facing a serious fitness crisis, but if you have any concerns about the total demise of tough people in these unUnited States, turn […]
Geographic quiz
Nowhere becomes notable Scientific American has called out “Badger, Alaska” as the country’s least “walkable city.” If you’re living there and in poor health because you don’t get any exercise, blame the […]
