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Pictures of the year from the NYT
Make sense of the day’s news and ideas. David Leonhardt and Times journalists guide you through what’s happening — and why it matters. Get it sent to your inbox. Photographers for The New York Times trod around the globe in 2022 … Continue reading
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Follow up on our 2021 heatwave
Clipped from: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EF002967
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Little Phrases = Large Lessons
Thanks to Sybil Ann. (From the late Rev. Dale Turner, favorite of many) I feel as good as I did at 20, only not as often. An apology is a good way to have the last word. It isn’t your … Continue reading
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Weight and health – current status from the New England Journal of Medicine
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Zelenskyy and the spirit of Ukraine are ‘Time’ magazine’s 2022 Person of the Year
Thanks to Pam P.
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The play call that didn’t work out
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A French Village’s Radical Vision of a Good Life with Alzheimer’s
by Marion Renault in The New Yorker Four years ago, I spent a morning cooking couscous with my grandmother Denise near Grenoble, France, where she has lived most of her life. We peeled carrots and turnips, seared lamb and chicken, … Continue reading
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Covid becomes plague of elderly, reviving debate over ‘acceptable loss’
Nearly 9 in 10 covid deaths are in people 65 or older [from Washington Post] Some epidemiologists and demographers predict the trend of older, sicker and poorer people dying at disproportionate rates will continue, raising hard questions about the trade-offs … Continue reading
The Climate Meta: Nine Aspects of the Big Picture
Skyline readers: I am preparing a series of Sci-Tech talks, my annual update on climate prospects. Advance comments would be most welcome. The most valuable comments are those that tell me where you stumbled, tuned out, or where you initially … Continue reading
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Seasonal affective disorder treatment: Choosing a light box
Ed note: It is felt that early morning light helps to regulate both mood and sleep. How so? Light striking the retina triggers the optic nerve. The optic nerves cross on the way to the cerebral cortex. Above where they … Continue reading
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Time to enjoy that Thanksgiving feast
Skyline is serving over 200 people in an overflow of the ODR into the Bistro and Mount Baker Room. Enjoy and give thanks to our wonderful staff.
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Bread delivery boy in Cairo
Thanks to Sybil-Ann Ed note: Even though the video appears to be speeded up a bit, it’s still pretty remarkable.
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The Complete List of Trump’s Twitter Insults (2015-2021)
Thanks to Mike C. Click here for these quotes from the past that we’d all love to forget. As a political figure, Donald J. Trump used Twitter to praise, to cajole, to entertain, to lobby, to establish his version of … Continue reading
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