Despite the fact that I keep my home practice varied, I am still attached to certain things. I like the yoga mat that I use, I love the lighting in the room in which I practice, I prefer the stability of the hardwood floor beneath me. Still, one of the joys of yoga is that […]

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A recent letter on the worldwide prevalence of head lice in CDC’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseases made me nostalgic for the good old days when our two kids were in daycare (they are both adults with children of their own in daycare now). In particular, I got to thinking about the days when I was […]

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They say that memory declines as age marches on, but that only applies to neurons - the immune system has a very different sort of memory and it stays fresh till the end of life. To this day, people who survived the 1918 flu pandemic carry antibodies that can remember and neutralise the murderous strain.

The […]

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