As I chanted three oms to bookend my morning yoga practice, I was reminded at how yoga skeptics often use the phrase “are we going to be doing weird stuff like chanting om?!?!” I suppose I thought chanting om was a bit odd before I started practicing yoga. Yet the first time I stood in […]

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As I chanted three oms to bookend my morning yoga practice, I was reminded at how yoga skeptics often use the phrase “are we going to be doing weird stuff like chanting om?!?!” I suppose I thought chanting om was a bit odd before I started practicing yoga. Yet the first time I stood in […]

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Barack Obama’s epic win (salon.com) No president since John Kennedy or Harry Truman will come into office facing graver crises….Tuesday was the night that the 1960s — the divisive decade that defined American politics for 40 years — finally died…. by defeating Clinton (representing baby boomers) and McCain (representing Vietnam soldiers) …The raucous Obama victory […]

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PalMD poses a really interesting question regarding the medical ethics of running lab tests on a patient to determine if they are drunk:
So here’s a non-life-and-death question: if a patient comes to see you and smells of alcohol, can you add an alcohol level to their blood work without specifically informing them?
As he points out, […]

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Coming back to the research base camp, one day, in the Ituri Forest (DR Congo) the first thing I noticed was that our cat was quite dead and even stiff. Her neck had been broken by some sort of carnivore, but strangely, she was not eaten. A leopard or some other creature would have eaten […]

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Everybody has not enough money to pay for a new car. As for those who want to purchase a second-hand or used car, most of them apply for used car loans. This can be done before they purchase the car or during the process of buying the used car. A used vehicle loan can be […]

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