The thrill or victory. And the agony of defeat.
Hot off the presses!
It’s today’s red-hot Medical Examiner, chock full of salubrious information to make this sweet life even sweeter. Just to whet your appetite: • almost enough information to qualify you to perform open heart-surgery • sweet news about chocolate and heart health • a book review of great ideas for intelligent tattoos, if you’re into that sort of thing and want some …
V Is For Video
Actually, V is for Music. Music always appears here on Thursdays because, well, medicine heals the body but music heals the soul. Today’s feast for the ears is a double shot of Tommy Emmanuel. If you know that name, you know excellence awaits. If you’re not familiar with his work, this will be your introduction to a true guitar virtuoso. …
Hump Day Hiatus
Since it’s hump day, you might be interested in a taking a little hiatus to recharge your batteries and get that all-important second wind to finish the remainder of the week in grand style. To accomplish that, I offer two quite worthy options. First, a kid with an absolutely spectacular outlook on life. He has a rare medical condition he …
World Cancer Day
Let’s open up a time capsule from 1994. I’ve been saving this short film I saw recently for today, World Cancer Day. It’s warm and beautiful and heartbreaking all at once. It highlights how very personal cancer is, and how intimately and ruthlessly and maliciously it steals from us. People say I’ve beaten cancer. Twice, in fact. (Actually it’s three …
PSA of the Week
This is important.
I Hate Monday
Do I hate that Philip Hoffman died of a drug overdose? Not particularly. I hate that anyone should die of a drug overdose. Hoffman was incredibly talented. But in their own ways, so are the thousands of nameless addicts who die in obscurity every year, unnoticed by anyone but a few close friends and family. Each and every one of …
Your football basics, right here.
You say your girlfriend/wife doesn’t know the first thing about the rules of football? Oh. Your boyfriend doesn’t. Well then, here you go, neatly explained in seconds flat. A Guide To American Football from Fraser Davidson on Vimeo.
Cats & Dogs
Courtesy of our furry, four-legged friends, each Saturday offers a free session of pet therapy. Please enjoy the following in all its therapeutic grandeur. Today’s theme: scaring yourself half to death.
The key to better health
No disrespect to doctors, pills and scalpels intended, but watch this brief video and you’ll realize there’s a more fundamental and effective way to improve health – and it comes with all kinds of additional quality of life benefits. Turns out, teachers and books can sometimes do more than doctors and nurses.