How many premature deaths from the top five causes are preventable? Lots of them. Life is precious. Live like you have just one body that has to last an entire lifetime.
A PSA for the ages
Smartphone PSA from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo. Yes, boys and girls, smartphones are wonderful. They’re stupendous. They’re amazing. They’re revolutionary. And they’re just plain old useful. But the time to be on them is not while driving, while walking through the mall, while dining with friends, while standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or among the sequoias, or …
Church Chat
Complexity is the new simplicity. Meaning what, exactly? The sheer complexity of the natural world leads to an inescapable conclusion: the more complex a structure or event, the less likely it is to occur by chance. That’s just common sense. But when someone uses the word “unlikely” to describe evolution, just how unlikely is it? Let’s take DNA as an …
PSA of the Week
It has been said that the human body, properly cared for, will last a lifetime. Abuse and mistreat it, on the other hand, and it will also last for a lifetime. In other words, your mileage may vary.
This Is Life
For this week’s edition of the celebrated Hump Day Hiatus we present this short film by We Should Be Working (how apt) entitled Life. It’s about, oh, it’s about four minutes long or so, and features one camera, two actors, and screen credits for probably two hundred people. It’s apparently presented as a metaphor for life. Do you agree? LIFE …
Hump Day Hiatus Twofer
Every Wednesday in this very spot, the Medical Examiner offers you a few sweet moments of escape, perhaps a video vacation to Borneo or Bali, Chicago or Shanghai. What follows first is a beautiful reminder that life’s travels are not as much about our destination as they are about who we’re traveling with. Below that, our second feature (scroll down) …
Come, All Ye Pew-Fillers
Yes, all ye faithful, it’s time for another installment of the Church of the Infinite Chasm, the Internet mega-church which dares to question the sacred religion of Evolution and its most holy beliefs. Like most regular churches (98% of whose members couldn’t find Obadiah or Zephaniah or Colossians if they had to, or turn to any specific chapter and verse …
It’s the Hump Day Hiatus
Today’s hiatus is a little different: it’s not replete with beautiful scenery for relaxation and refreshment. It doesn’t offer an armchair visit to some exotic destination halfway around the world. And it doesn’t show people doing exciting things to motivate us to get off the La-Z-Boy and exercise something other than our clicker thumb. What does it show? Just about …