With the help of the late philosopher Alan Watts, a man who had lots of thoughts to share, the Medical Examiner hereby offers its blog readers a head start on taking the steps to a better life, and maybe even avoiding the pitfalls so commonly fallen into during the fast-approaching holiday season. It all begins with one simple question. . …
Numbers: going, going…
If you haven’t seen the Nov. 2 Medical Examiner about numbers, grab a copy at one of our dozens of CSRA newsstands before they’re all gone, or read it online (scroll down to see it below). And for more visuals that help put millions, billions and trillions into some kind of perspective an ordinary human being can grasp, scroll to …
Instantly Improve Your Day
As if just being alive on a glorious fall day – a Friday, no less – isn’t reason enough to celebrate, your Most Salubrious source of salubriety gives you 23 more ways to instantly improve your day. There is no charge for this service. http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/steps-to-instantly-make-your-day-better
One hiatus, coming right up
Yes, here it is already, Hump Day for the week of November 4, 2012. That means it’s time to take a short break and recharge our batteries for the remainder of the week with a mini-vacation. Last week our destination was Ho Chi Minh City, and in previous weeks we’ve gone to Malaysia, Lake Tahoe, Tasmania, the Grand Canyon, and …
OBAMA TRIES TO SAVE THE A
CAN OBAMA SAVE THE A? He’s trying, but it isn’t going well so far. One thing you can say for Dr. Ricardo Azziz: the man is tenacious. And he’s what is sometimes called a company man. That’s someone whose allegiance to his employer comes before personal beliefs or loyalty to fellow workers. Despite poll results (which he requested), he mounted …
More NUMB3RS!
3.2 million of them, to be specific. A guy sticks his face in a copier – and who of us hasn’t done that? – and a couple o’ three million dots later, viola! (or as some prefer, voila!) A work of art emerges courtesy of his son, artist Miguel Endara. View full screen if you like. The Making of “Hero” …
I should be dead.
Yes indeed, I should be dead. This short video explains all the reasons why. Then again, from another perspective, it explains precisely why I’m not.
CYANIDE MONDAY
Gather the children, boys and girls, moms and dads – the whole family – for a wonderful and inspiring I Hate Monday story. nce upon a time there was a very successful product. The product was so popular and profitable that many competing companies sold it. Farmers could grow it. It was a popular cash crop. People used it every …
Another trillion
Related to the earlier post NUMB3RS (below), here’s some additional food for thought about what a trillion – in this case, a trillion dollars – really means. For a little perspective (but not much) on what a stack of $1 bills nearly 79,000 miles high would look like, consider the recent record-setting free fall by Austrian Felix Baumgartner. He jumped …