Hmm. It’s what we want- as long as it is proposed by OUR party!

September 30, 2022 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 4 Comments

When we were discussing the Inflation Reduction Act (sic), I mentioned that Senator Joe Manchin was arranging a major energy regulatory change to the act. One that would effectively speed up the approval process for energy related projects across the USA. Something that would annoy many of the NIMBY (Not in My Back Yard) and anti-fossil fuel contingents. Even though these same provisions are also critical for America to truly build a new electric grid- one capable of handling alternative energy with aplomb.

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A delightful read

September 29, 2022 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 6 Comments

I haven’t written about a book I’ve read in a long time.

That’s despite me reading two or three books simultaneously (one or two from the fiction, one or two from the non-fiction, and one from the religious categories- plus listening an Audible book (light story, delightful to accompany my driving.) I admit that for the past three years, my participation in the Audible segment has been furloughed, since I wasn’t able to drive for nearly three years, until my son’s birthday, this past 4^th of July.

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Economy, Technology

Bioreactor Food Production

September 28, 2022 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 2 Comments

We’ve talked about the American firms that are promoting vegetarian based meat and fish substitutes. Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods. Even firms that are cultivated meat and chicken from starter cultures.

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L’Shana Tova, Y’all

September 25, 2022 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 2 Comments

May you be inscribed

for a new year of

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It’s a New Year Celebration

September 23, 2022 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A.

I have a busy weekend prepared. Tonight (and tomorrow night), I will be watching my beloved Phillies- it’s the last weekend of playing at home this season. Sunday morning, I will enjoy breakfast with my daughter, son-in-law, and grandson. Then, I will hightail it to Brooklyn, to spend Rosh Hashana with my son and his wife.

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Business Management, Medicine, Technology

Susan Solomon, A Stem Cell Pioneer

September 22, 2022 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 4 Comments

Susan Solomon, the co-founder (right at her kitchen in 2005 with Mary Elizabeth Bunzel) and long time CEO of the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF), just succumbed to cancer. She first became a health care advocate in 1992, when her son, Ben Goldberger, was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes, at the age of 9. Soon after her mother’s death from cancer in 2004 and a political decision by the US Government, she knew that stem cell research was the best hope for her son’s condition and for folks like her mom with cancer. That’s what led to the founding of NYSCF.

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Home Dialysis Implementation Scorecard

September 21, 2022 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 2 Comments

Exactly as I feared.

As I stated on 15 July 2019, when I discussed Trump’s Executive Order regarding dialysis, I considered that this executive order looked to be more aspirational than executional. Not even the End Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices (ETC) payment model seems to have made a dent in the increased adoption of home dialysis services.

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