There’s No I in Alone
Coaches often use the phrase “There’s no ‘I’ in ‘team’” to emphasize the importance of group effort. Any good team is truly made up of partners, members who see the value of working together as more...
View ArticleHealth Nut Hal: X-ray Vision
Straining, squinting, craning his neck forward…none of it seemed to help. Hal simply could not see the face of the girl who had just waved at him from across the park. As she disappeared behind the row...
View ArticleX-rays and X-ing Over
Most people think of “x-rays” as the pictures that doctors take when trying to “see” something inside their bodies. This common usage is correct, but x-rays (or x-radiation) are actually a type of...
View ArticleHealth Nuts Hal: Losing ZZZs (Sleep)
Hal couldn’t have yawned any larger. If he had, he might have split the corners of his mouth wide open. He was so sleepy that he could hardly see straight. He kept rubbing his eyes, yawning,...
View ArticleZZZs are A+++ (Sleep Rules!)
When we sleep, we are in another world, so to speak. Either we go somewhere in our dreams or we just sign out of our conscious world for a while. Wherever it is that our minds “go” when we sleep, it...
View ArticleA Diabetes Vaccine?
OK, the post’s headline may be a bit sensational, but the idea for just such a vaccine received a boost recently when collaborating researchers published results from two studies in the leading journal...
View ArticleThanks in All Shapes and Sizes
“Thanks” can come in all shapes and sizes; sometimes it’s hard to remember that. It’s easy to “see” a “thank you” when someone says it out loud and those are very nice (to receive and to remember to...
View ArticleGive a Stick for Christmas
PROJECT WILD THING – official trailer from Green Lions on Vimeo. Give a kid a stick for Christmas?!? Whaaa…? They’re kidding, right? It’s like Santa filling your child’s stocking with coal because...
View ArticleCES2014 – Electronics Stories
It’s that time of year again…Gadgets and Gizmos Time! Yes, January has become the second “Christmas” for geeks the world over since the onset to the annual Consumer Electronics Show some forty seven...
View ArticleSpeaking Human
We’ve all been there: talking to some expert – a mechanic, a plumber, a doctor, a tech support person – who talks in some language, but who doesn’t sound as if they’re “speaking human.” Jargon is the...
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