Nov 10, 2020
My Morning Musings: Tears We’re nearing the final months of 2020, a year punctuated with joy and sadness. Tears streaking down our faces likely marked those highs and lows. Emotional tears are yet another physiological event that underscores our...
Oct 29, 2020
Here we are in who knows which month of the pandemic, and most of us are probably looking at a bowl of Halloween candy, having that internal dialogue: Reese’s cups stay, Hershey’s Special Dark chocolate stays, candy corn is up for debate (will decide later), and...
Oct 14, 2020
My Morning Musings: Purpose of Public Health Let’s take a walk back in time and place to 1854 London. During the mid 1800s, the deadly bacterial disease, cholera, was sweeping though Britain, and a particularly hard-hit area was the London suburb, Soho. ...
Sep 24, 2020
Oh, my goodness! Anxiety is high these days – which is why my morning musing focuses on the physiology of troubled life as a human. To begin, let’s define some terms floating about our egospheres, my made-up word for everything happening in your internal...
Sep 9, 2020
Where do you get your science news? Finding credible sources for any news can be troublesome, and identifying reputable science news can be doubly difficult, especially since the lines between daily news and science news blur. We know that facts are...
Aug 27, 2020
My Morning Musings: Defining Death This morning’s email inbox was full of doom and gloom: murder hornets are in Washington, COVID-19 death toll is rising, wildfires are decimating California, Iowa is recovering from the derecho, and Hurricane Laura made landfall as a...
