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-Benjamin Franklin
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Pandemic Helped Spread Fentanyl- Andrew Kolodny
How the pandemic helped spread fentanyl across the US and drive opioid overdose deaths to a grim new high Andrew Kolodny, Brandeis University For the past 20 years, I have been engaged in efforts to end the opioid epidemic, as a public health official, researcher and clinician. And for every one of those years I have Read more
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Punishing the Group for an Individual’s Misconduct
It’s an authoritarian concept – if one person misbehaves, the powers that be will punish the entire group for that misbehavior. You’ve seen the movies – the punishment is usually accompanied by the promise that the punishment will be ended when the miscreant confesses . . . or when his peers narc on him. History Read more
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Treating the Symptom, not the Problem
The county health department has proposed several “solutions” to the problem of inappropriate materials being disposed of at the green boxes (see last week’s Tobacco Valley News). Two out of three of those “solutions” will remove the Trego greenboxes, while all three include a budget increase for the health department. There are some issues with Read more
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The Hottest Day Since When?
The problem with partial duration series is that we wind up projecting from incomplete data. Cemetery sizes are larger in areas like the east coast, where towns have been present longer, than in Montana, where we’re just starting on our second century. NOAA offers some perspective – not from models, but from evidence that geologists Read more
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Aging is complicated- Ellen Quarles
Aging is complicated – a biologist explains why no two people or cells age the same way, and what this means for anti-aging interventions Ellen Quarles, University of Michigan You likely know someone who seems to age slowly, appearing years younger than their birth date suggests. And you likely have seen the opposite – someone whose Read more
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Thoughts on Government
I am a sociologist – and it is difficult to look at any level of government without recalling Max Weber’s definition: It is such a simple definition – possibly the simplest possible. Max continues with a definition of power: “Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and Read more
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