Sleater-kinney’s reunion was spectacular but they had been apart for less than a decade and played smaller venues with a great new album as support.

“Give it to me straight Doctor, I can handle it.”

I actually tried to look at this using the CDC birth data but there is no statistically significant difference for any age, race, or ethic group with the exception of much older mothers, what did strike me is that according to birth certificates since 2007, only 1.5% of us births are at home which also bolsters the…

That is really interesting information that had never occurred to me. I actually wonder if differences in the availability of high quality midwives across states or hospital/medical/insurance systems could explain some of the variance in both infant mortality and birth location choice.

There is also a potential selection issue in addition to the midwife training etc. it matters who is having home births. If it's a normal cross section of mothers in Europe and Canada but a skewed sample of more at risk populations in the US (folks who can't afford hospitals or good prenatal care, rural populations,…

It’s very much a “slow and steady wins the race” thing, as long as you only expect to lose 1-2 pounds per week, listen to your body, gradually increase exercise without overtaxing, make sure to get a balanced diet, and just generally be chill, your metabolism won’t suffer this kind of damage. This is also the kind of…

Shit, up until that point it could just be stupidity, but if you don't even listen to your quack and let your kid die...

Seriously? Lots of people, myself included. I’m rounding my mid 20s and getting hangovers after a few drinks for the first time in my life so I thought “man, getting old sucks and I am far from old, I wonder if there is a way to mitigate this” so I went to the Internet. I knew drink water and eat something but the…

Mexico: 6.3, Brazil: 18, chile: 1, Argentina: 2.6, at the high end is Honduras at 66 which is comparable to a war zone. The US is higher than Zimbabwe, Bolivia, kyrgystan, and Montenegro to name a few notoriously dangerous places but we don't compare to most of Latin America.

There’s a pretty good book about how hard eating local is year round even living in a place that produces food. It’s “animal, vegetable, miracle” by the wonderful novelist Barbara kingsolver. The book itself isn't a novel.

Oh thank goodness for the clarification. It’s good to know that trans people will only be denied their rights in schools and government buildings but not in all private businesses. I was worried for a second.

Good. I wouldn't want to accidentally wander in.

When my sister was first pregnant she started to read about child care and got all panicky, so she, her husband, me, and some other family members went and took infant cpr and first aid. I think it helped her freak out less knowing what to do if something terrible happened and also knowing that her support system…

My grandmother has a heart arrhythmia and some other issues and (mild) early stage dimensia so, while she can live on her own with minor assistance and wants to be on her own, she won’t notice or pay attention to medical warning signs, or remember to take meds, some of which are not regularly scheduled but need to be…

truer words have never been spoken

And now for some science:

Read the article, of course obesity is a problem but measuring it incorrectly means health interventions are targeted incorrectly and people get screwed over by their insurance. Waist size and waist to height ratio are MUCH better predictors of health than BMI. this isn’t about “self love” it’s about bad science…

It's a bad guideline based on incorrect arbitrary science from, literally, 200 years ago and developed by someone who wasn't a doctor or involved in health care in any way. http://www.npr.org/templates/stor…

It was never even intended as a health indicator for an individual, it’s a population measure developed by a mathematician. http://www.npr.org/templates/stor…

The woman didn’t wake up until three hours after the two were discovered