According to D.D. Palmer, "All rachitic conditions are because of displacement of the twelfth dorsal [thoracic] vertebra; this is an established fact." Modern day medicine disagrees. Here's why I want to practice a different kind of chiropractic than "principle-based" chiropractors.
Read MoreOverquoting Quotes
Social media quotes on news channels are making me a grammar pedant.
Read MoreOn Writing
I'm making an effort to write more. This may show up as writing thoughts, writing summaries of research articles or books, writing about writing, or even writing about books about writing.
Read MoreExisting in Consciousness
I’ve been using Sam Harris’ meditation app, Waking Up. One of the biggest challenges I’m facing is the concept of everything “existing in consciousness.” It’s not that I disagree–it’s that I don’t understand what the alternative would be.
Read MoreFavorite Nonprofit Books
Here is a non-exhaustive collection of the books that have impacted the way I look at non-profit work.
Read MoreHeaded to Mars!
I've been a fan of the Mars missions ever since my uncle, Doctor Cosmo, turned me on to it from the first rover. He was a graphic designer (and jack of many other trades) and created an animation of the dancing baby on the pink planet.
A few missions later, I sat alone in my 1 bedroom apartment in Salt Lake after midnight to see the success of the Curiosity rover. I'm not ashamed to say I was brought to tears seeing the excitement of the engineers in mission control.
So I'm looking forward to the next one - MARS 2020. If you're an uber nerd, you can even get your own boarding pass and send your name to Mars. Not sure exactly what that means, but I got mine!
Read for your life!
Reading has become a renewed passion for me lately. (I even picked up 1984 and The Old Man and the Sea from high school!)
A series of research studies are showing a surprising benefit: reading can actually help you live longer!
Dr. John Medina, author of Brain Rules for Aging Well says, "One twelve-year study showed that if seniors read at least 3.5 hours a day, they were 17 percent less likely to die by a certain age than controls who didn’t read. Read more than that and you increase the number to 23 percent. The reading has to be of books, long form. While reading mostly newspaper articles did something positive, the effects were smaller."
So do like Marie Kondo, pull those books off your bookshelf, and wake them up!!