There’s been a huge surge in the number of yoga events to support worthwhile causes. Back in the day you’d often see a running event linked to a cause (think “race for a cure”). You still do and it’s wonderful, but to someone like me — a person who doesn’t run unless chased (what can […]

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There’s been a huge surge in the number of yoga events to support worthwhile causes. Back in the day you’d often see a running event linked to a cause (think “race for a cure”). You still do and it’s wonderful, but to someone like me — a person who doesn’t run unless chased (what can […]

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There’s been a huge surge in the number of yoga events to support worthwhile causes. Back in the day you’d often see a running event linked to a cause (think “race for a cure”). You still do and it’s wonderful, but to someone like me — a person who doesn’t run unless chased (what can […]

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The Israeli police, supported by the navy, arrested the captain of the Rainbow Warrior - together with 14 Greenpeace activists, the photographer and the videographer - for passing on the message to “Quit Coal”. Activists had been painting the message, in English and Hebrew, on a ship importing coal to the Ashkelon power plant in […]

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(I felt Doctor Signout deserved a more complete answer, so here it is.)
I’m surrounded by cynicism. Doctors make particularly good cynics (although not always the best skeptics). Why are we cynics? Pehaps because we see human behavior in the raw. On a daily—no, hourly—basis, we see people making decisions that destory their bodies. People who […]

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Well, here’s a rare bit of good news in the endless tedium that has become the U.S. election. It appears that Barack Obama has ticked off the antivaccine contingent. I know, I know, I said I would try to lay off this topic for a few days, but this is just too amusing. Apparently, he’s […]

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