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WaPo story on employees & broken roller coaster This is unbelievable (if you can access the article watch the brief video): https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/03/carowinds-fury-roller-coaster-crack/ The summary - a customer at an amusement park in Charlotte notices that the...

(There have been a few previous threads on TIAA annuity issues, but I don't see this explicitly addressed. I expect there are folks on E-R.org with direct experience of receiving TIAA annuity payments and will really appreciate comments). Anyways: I have a supplemental retirement annuity (SRA)...

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection." --- Arthur Schopenhauer

My cardiologist highly recommends calcium scores for folks at and past their late 50s and is rather peeved that they are not more universally adopted. My (possibly incorrect) understanding is that for younger folks a high calcium score would be very concerning, but a low score may not be as...

Wright travelled in Japan and was influenced by Japanese aesthetics, but only built one building there: the second version (1923-1967) of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. It was demolished in 1967 but the front part was preserved and moved to "Meiji World", a kind of theme park near Gifu, Japan...

Air Purifier reviews/recommendations The NYTimes Wirecutter has reviews/recommendations for air purifiers...

Colbert had a funny bit where he shows a particularly attractive photo of Dr. Fauci in a white coat, and introduces him as "Dr. Anthony Fauci head of NIAID and nice veterinarian your mom takes the dog to much too often"

Hmm... and It rains ALL THE TIME in Vancouver, so you easterners shouldn't even think about moving here...

No indulgences for me.... but I am no doubt funding many indulgences for my dentist...

Weather/Climate effects on covid19 It seems there are huge gaps in the scientific understanding of the seasonal effects on flu-like epidemics in general. The National Academies convened a rapid consult team to summarize knowledge relevant to the current pandemic...

Got my stimulus payment today (4/14) by direct deposit.

'Better" may not be quite fair. The covid19 protection from the TB vaccine (if real) is presumably coincidental. Now the different strains of the vaccine appear to have different covid19 effects, but they may all have been fine for the original purpose?

Partial protective effect of TB vaccination? The link below is really fascinating (and "not crazy" according to at least one medical faculty member colleague here). The idea is that folks who got the old fashioned TB vaccine as infants have some limited protection against covid19. You can...

Yes this happens so often. I had an acquaintance with 2 children who had drastically different paths in life. He claims he could have foretold all this from the first day each was home after their birth - one was already happy, patient, serene, the other was unhappy, impatient, agitated....

Wow I think the only place anyone is likely to encounter "groovy" these days is in some Simon & Garfunkel retrospective featuring the "59th Street Bridge Song". I can imagine young folks today having no idea what it means. BTW you may see an updated (2017) version of "59th Street Bridge Song"...

I am looking forward to seeing the responses to this thread from folks with careers in business, government and teaching. As an academic scientist, mentorship of graduate students and post docs was a major part of my job description. I was not as successful as many in terms of numbers - I...

Of course social moods can shift dramatically, particularly among the younger folks. I expect that most of us here are too young to have really experienced the 1960's, but here is a small anecdote to show how much things have changed. There was a prominent N.J. moderate *Republican* politician...

When I was being treated for a sore knee, my PT recommended this to strengthen muscles around the knee. Actually he had me doing this while standing on a slightly jiggly cushion (but lightly touching a wall to extend the time I could continue on one foot). I found at home that a doubled-over...

That is quite a remarkable story. Thank you for sharing and good luck going forward!

Calcium score anyone? These debates about statins and apparent bad side effects for many patients makes me wonder why CT scans are not more widely applied. At least if you believe my doc, the calcium score from such a test is a very good indicator of how much actual arterial disease one has...

I notice my doc included direct LDL in my next scheduled blood tests for the first time, without explanation. I have pretty good lipid numbers, so probably he has decided on this as standard procedure for all his patients now.

I heard an expert on the radio once who explained that if you can't find your keys, that is likely just normal aging. However, if you can't remember what keys are used for, that's dementia.

Hi Folks, I found this story on The NY Times climate blog about recycling plastics rather informative https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/climate/nyt-climate-newsletter-recycling-plastic.html?emc=edit_clim_20190424&nl=climate-fwd&nlid=6657946320190424&te=1 I found it interesting to learn which...

Thanks for pointing to this interesting study. The percentage of 12 month periods in which an asset class beat inflation is interesting, but perhaps more relevant is the chance over a longer period - 5, 10, 20 yrs. Also even on the short-term it would be interesting to learn how each class...

I am not sure he ever had a burgler alarm, but Mark Twain did write this story making fun of the promoters/installers of burgler alarms (invented in 1853 when Twain was 18 y.o.) https://dynamarksecurityrichmond.com/a-short-history-of-burglar-alarms/