Only - such concepts are often put together on the quick by people who are more interested marketing/manipulating. This, in turn, results in language that mis-represents what actually is. And when others then parrot (and amplify) such misrepresentations, a very important function of language is weakened: to transport…

The ‘Florida’ thing makes it tricky, though...

If you concentrate on driving, I think one can do a pretty good job at detecting potholes in advance. Of course, if you’re gazing at your phone constantly, this is too much to ask for...

That argument is another fallacy. The question is whether you need to consciously put stuff which is ‘evitable’ into your system, on top of the other stuff that already taxes the system inevitably.

Brilliant idea - I fully support this!

I do hope the Dept. of Education invests at least as much money to educate high schoolers about ‘critical thinking’, the fallacies of ‘fast money’, or ‘for profit’ educational institutions... Now THAT would be money well invested.

Good grief! I thought that KP had a network of relatively capable docs.

True. Another factor is simply that often people don’t give themselves the time to recover (or employment regulations don’t). You can ride out many (not all) infections by going slow for a few days, or even bedrest (yes, that exists!). In the end, an infection means that your body is telling you “go slow, my immune…

At the same time it’s important to note that, particularly in the US health system, there’s an absolute over-use of antibiotics. I’m always amazed how quickly doctors here prescribe that stuff. Got a cold? Throw in some penicillin. Doctor doesn’t really know what’s going on? Antibiotics (complemented by MRI...), just…

The Vittorio Emanuele II monument in Rome, a pompous neoclassicist monstrosity. Also called ‘the King’s dentures’.

If you use the old form of ‘alarm’, you should have been consistent and use the old form also for ‘bell’: ring the alarum belle!

Needs more of this:

It’s unsettling, to say the least, to imagine that an advanced society living on such a world would have nowhere else to go when its star eventually failed.

A ‘Giant Eagle Kite’ for $199, or an ‘Abyss Table’ for $24,000? Looks more like Hammacher and Schlemmer in nerdy disguise to me... True nerds won’t fall for this BS.

They smell bad enough themselves - not sure anything gets through that...

There’s variations of the myth, and Sisyphus is not all bad: Homer, for example, calls him ‘prudent’. Camus then gives it the twist that life is absurd, in a way, but that one can be persistent, and take it as a challenge - so here’s a positive aspect.

One flaw: they counted Alabama as ‘northern hemisphere’.

How?

...the freedom to choose...