Quick recap: Europe, stuck in the dark ages, has only a few second hand medical texts from the good old days of Rome. Mostly Hippocratic "common knowledge" rules the day; Soranus, that great obstetrician of antiquity, has been largely forgotten;...

I ran across this study this weekend. A bunch of kids in 7th grade (11 and 12) were polled about future career choices. The results were tabulated against parents' careers, and the student's own later education. The results show that kids in the 11...

The nice elderly gentleman bagging my groceries this evening spent a great deal of time stacking them just so. Then he rearranged them. Then stacked. Then rearranged. I must have been staring. Or maybe I had that impatient expression of someone who...

We temporarily leave the dark ages to comment on a study I saw this week about the WHO's C-section rate recommendations. First, some background. The natural childbirth movement in America began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The origins are mucky...

I have expounded, in the past, about the utility of a scorecard when dealing with a child's food choices. I have since decided that the scorecard is irrelevant. Scorecards only work when the rules stay the same from one game to the next; if the rules...