I routinely woke up with crusted over eyes when I was younger. Yup- allergies. But, I, thankfully, never suffered from dry eyes. (And, those that endured my performances on stage didn’t either 🙂 .) Because dry-eye syndrome is primarily found among post-menopausal women and older people. (Watch it, there, buster!)
Continue reading Is there a dry eye in the house?
What to do? With that fateful diagnosis (or the knowledge that BRCA1 and/or BRCA2 genes are among your chromosomes)- a lumpectomy or total breast removal? We know what Angelie Jolie chose to do. And, many European Jews (Ashkenazi) are carriers of the breast cancer genes- so they are prime targets for breast cancer.
Continue reading Better Cancer Treatment?
We’ve got a problem. We seem to have forgotten how to interact with humans. Oh, don’t tell me that you text your friends, you “Facebook” them all the time. No, that’s not human interaction. That’s avoiding human contact- unless you live on the other side of the world from your friend.
Continue reading Can you hear me now?
I am so tired of hearing how corporations pay 35% of their income to the Internal Revenue Service. That fiction needs to stop- now. There are a slew of companies that paid nome o corporate inctaxes in 2012 (and years prior).
Continue reading Tax Rate Fictions
About 1/6 of us feel that we do not get sufficient sleep. Now, that’s the data- and I can’t figure out quite how that was derived- but it seems that someone told the subjects they needed 8 hours of sleep- which predicated that answer.
Continue reading Catching some Z’s?
You know it’s coming. And, you better be ready…
You’ve convinced the (potential) client [hereinafter, PC] that you have the ‘stuff”- you can solve their problem. And, then, the PC asks how much this is really going to cost…
Continue reading Are you ready for this?
If only we would make tough choices. The system – at least for the past years- is arranged to punt decisions down the line. Where the choices are the same, anyway- just more expensive.
We’ve heard about this before- for years. Folks working in animal processing facilities are more prone to injury and poor working conditions than in other industries.
Continue reading Speed- at all costs
Big data. It’s all the rage. Somewhere, someone decided that, given our awesome computing capabilities, we can use this to predict behavior. Or, to understand the world because our computer systems will let us crunch the numbers.
Continue reading Big Data misses the difference between correlation and causation
Gotta get it done. Now.
Gotta track it all. Now.
Gotta get the team on the same page. Now.
Continue reading Organized Chaos.