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PopCap: Zero Tolerance = Institutionalized Stupidity
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) A six year old, excited about joining the Cub Scouts, “takes a camping utensil that can serve as a knife,…
October 30, 2009
Don’t Be A Frog
You’ve heard the story of the frog that got boiled alive in a pot it could have escaped from, but failed to take action in…
October 29, 2009
Healthy Aging
Can you name the seven major factors that create a healthy old age, both physically and psychologically? According to the Grant Study of 268 Harvard…
October 26, 2009
PopCap: An Inconvenient Truth…About Solar Power
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) It turns out that solar power is a water hog. Yep, solar power, the poster child of the renewable energy movement,…
October 23, 2009
“I Get So Mad When…” AKA Giving Away Your Personal Power
“I feel so ‘X’ when you do ‘Y’” or “I get so ‘X’ when ’Y’ happens.” We all make statements like this. I made several…
October 20, 2009
PopCap: Health Care vs. Healthy Behavior: John F. Kennedy and the Presidential Fitness Award
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Some of the “easiest” savings in health care costs in America can come from Americans, as individuals and as a…
October 16, 2009
Exercise Makes You Smarter
Well, at least aerobic exercise does. To create new neurons and brain connections, “it appears that various growth factors must be carried from the periphery…
October 6, 2009
Face Blindness vs. Super Recognizers
Face blindness, or prosopagnosia, affects about 2% of the population. Prosopagnosia comes from the Greek: prosopon, or face, and agnosia, or ignorance. Face blindness refers…
October 5, 2009
Learning to Ring Pavlov’s* Bell Ourselves
Understanding How Social Cues Influence Our Behavior We are always picking up cues from our environment and responding to them, most of the time without…
September 22, 2009
Don’t Blame Your Genes
Study shows bodily abuse can stretch all the way down to the genetic level Okay, I’m relying on The Economist (“The Origin of Diabetes: Don’t…
September 14, 2009
Just Deal With It: Getting in Touch With Your Survival Instinct
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Craig Fugate, the new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is a man who evidently believes in speaking…
September 11, 2009