• Coffee is being used as a COVID-19 diagnostic tool. Basically, when you wake up and smell the coffee, make damned sure that you can smell the coffee. Carol and I kid each other about being able to smell lots of things, including coffee but also bacon, garlic, ozone...and dog poop. If we ever catch Teh Viruss, we will know it.
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Yesterday I ran across a nice article in the New York Times, which is an excerpt from Gina Kolata's new book, Rethinking Thin. I'd heard the odd reference to fifty-year-old research from Jules Hirsch, a physician at Rockefeller University, that strongly correlated (70 percent-strong!) ( Read more... )