One of the economic shortcomings that’s more or less obvious in “just letting the market handle it” is that the market often doesn’t include total costs of use. The situation is akin to letting someone buy supplies for a large party, holding the party on common land, and then simply walking off, leaving the trash [...]
I recently had a massage teaching colleague ping me about: 1) Why we need mitochondria? and 2) How many molecules of ATP are used per second in typical muscle contractions? Both questions are a matter of energy, thus piquing my underlying physicist nature. Glucose to ATP The first question really was really along the lines [...]
After a too long hiatus, Ramblemuse Touch Points (RMTP) is active again, now updated to current WordPress and restyled to match the main Ramblemuse.com theme. For help with the learning curve on creating a WordPress theme from scratch, I can point to a tutorial at wpdesigner with thanks. The tutorial was organized the way I [...]
Back toward the end of last year, I’d posted a short piece about the book Three Cups of Tea, profiling Greg Mortenson’s work building schools in remote parts of Pakistan. NY Times Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas Kristof just wrote a column about Mortenson — It Takes a School, Not Missles. Kristof also extends the discussion and a [...]
At just over two weeks since my lay-off from LLNL, the lab is already starting to seem a memory seen through the aerosol-induced haze of distance. By focusing and working intensely on other endeavors, such as networking () and the general bibliography, I’ve deliberately accelerated my own psychological perception of the passing of time. Simply [...]
The Massage Therapy Foundation (MTF) is launching a new peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal — the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork: Research, Education, & Practice. The first edition is scheduled for August. As co-chair of the MTF’s Best Practices Committee, I submitted a 33 page paper to the editor today covering the committee’s work [...]
An episode of Freakonomics embodied the concept that creating explicit requirements replaces prior tacit requirements. In this episode, a day-care center in Haifa imposed an explicit fine for late pick-ups by parents. In contradiction to the expected decrease in late pick-ups, the explicit fine replaced the tacit penalty of parental guilt and the number of [...]
Over the last 15 months, I’ve been working as part of the Massage Therapy Foundation’s Best Practices Committee on defining a protocol for creating evidence-based guidelines for massage therapy. Fairly early on in the process I did a draft literature review of existing criteria for guideline creation. Recently, I’ve been thinking of how to define [...]
The November/December issue of the journal Health Affairs covers the topic of Will Employer Coverage Endure? There’s further discussion that health coverage isn’t the same as the traditional concept of insurance in the Health Affairs Blog. The California Healthcare Foundation has also provided free access links to several of the articles from their page on [...]
I recently subscribed to a couple of Time.com RSS feeds on science and health. On the health side, In Perils of the Lonely Brain, Jeffrey Kluger writes about research on how feelings of isolation negatively effect executive function. In What We’ll be Dying From, Michael Lemonick notes a World Health Organization report on the top [...]
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