England. Enjoy.

Those nice people at the Guardian have asked me to blog about three things I do to enjoy England . Well, they came to the right place, obvi...

Find The Fault No 41

We've all known garages like this I'm sure. The family car didn't start losing oil until the 1920's, so houses didn't co...

Diabetics on a Low-carbohydrate Diet, Part II

I just found another very interesting study performed in Japan by Dr. Hajime Haimoto and colleagues ( free full text ). They took severe di...

Shirtwaist Girl... 1943!

(Click on the images to enlarge.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, April 1943

Back to 1662

Today is apparently 'Back to Church Sunday'. There's been some radio commercials, a website and the Bishop of Reading has come ...

Insurance doesn't cover cancer pills!

Today, this New York Times article entitled: Insurance Lags as Cancer Care comes in a Pill revealed the communication gap between patients...

Keeping kids and child care centers flu-free

Ask any parent — little kids have a tendency to touch everything in sight. Their hands glide blissfully from doorknob to toy to nose to shoe...

Weekly Update on H1N1 in Maine 9/24/09

Maine CDC/DHHS Update on Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus September 24, 2009 Overview US CDC reports that key indicators show that flu activit...

Find The Fault No 40

Quite a lot going on here. Looks like my dad in the trilby on the bus. Could that green van be a Trojan? And is that a miniature Dick Tracy ...