Tonight begins the 9th day of Av, which continue until tomorrow. (Remember that the Tora said, “There was evening, there was morning, one day”. That is why our days begin in the evening- and why there’s a Christmas Eve and a New Year’s Eve.) The very end of this Hebrew month denotes the day my mother died and the next day (also a new moon) is the day my oldest daughter was born. All auspicious moments.
Continue reading No food. No water.
I do remember my MAD magazine. Which I loved long before I found out the founder was a chemistry major at Brooklyn Poly. (He dropped out.)
Continue reading SCOTUS won’t change the WFH dilemna
A few weeks ago, the Senate did the impossible. It passed a bill. Not only did it pass a bill- but it was bipartisanly passed.
Continue reading Technology Policy?
First, to our friends in France. C'est le jour de la Bastille! Happy Bastille Day!
I have a long-time buddy and a bunch of clients who work for the government (ok, their client/employer is the DOD/NSA) and their only portfolio is cybersecurity.
I just don’t get it.
Microsoft Exchange Server updates in March- and is exploited for ransomware via backdoors left in the software.
Continue reading It’s not just four letter words that are problems. Cyber is a 5 letter one.
So, most of you know that I have survived a fatal illness. Yes, I’m lucky- but I knew that when I survived car crashes, airplane crashes, bombings, gun shootings… OK, you get the idea.
Continue reading When you need help…
Dr. Pieter Cohen (Harvard Medical) has been on his academic and research soapbox almost as long as I. And, he, along with John Travis (NSF International), Celine Vanhee (Sciensano Research Institute, Belgium’s version of NIH), as well as Dana Ohana and Bastiaan Venhuis (National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Netherland’s version of NIH), just published the results of their research in Clinical Toxicology.
Continue reading Still not convinced? Here’s someone else on the soapbox!
You know I’m a child of the 50s and 60s. My soapbox is always ready for my pitches.
Continue reading Here I go again…
Ah, you have to love it when companies have an agenda they want to promote and tailor their research findings to so yield.
Continue reading And the survey says…
I already own more than a few credit cards. So, I’m not sure this new offering would tempt me… But, it might just work for a few folks.
Continue reading I think I’m passing on this credit card