Diabetes News Roundup
I am extending the reach of my research for this series of DK posts, as you will see below. The news is coming thick and fast about drugs, diet, implants, legal actions, and much more. As always, let...
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12/6 Good News Roundup: Featuring Good News from DK Itself
I’m using my canned outline again, but I’m trying something new this morning—mining DK itself for goodies. We have all sorts of animal, politics, science, and other cheering Diaries to work with, and...
View ArticleJoe Stiglitz: the Bogus "Washington Consensus" on Austerity
Our economics book for today is Globalization and Its DIscontents, by Joseph Stiglitz. In it he excoriates the “Washington Consensus” of a certain time period—the nearly universal prescription of...
View ArticleThe Koan of Arrival
Last week we considered how to start on the Buddha’s path. All other koans are about where the path leads, which turns out not to be a destination. We can talk about awakening in many ways, but then we...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday 12/12 COP28 Not Quite Over
COP28 started with high hopes, but is now bogged down over a word. Will it be a “phase down” of Fossil Foolishness, per the weakening OPEC and Russia, or a “phase out” per the rest of the world? IOW,...
View ArticleType 2 Diabetes Signalling
New cause of diabetes discovered, offering potential target for new classes of drugs to treat the diseaseResearchers have identified an enzyme that blocks insulin produced in the body -- a discovery...
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12/14 Good News Roundup: Dark Brandon's Kung-Fu is the Best
Well, to be fair, they don’t have any. They only know how to whine and cry harder, and accuse us of all of their own failings and misdeeds. As always, whatever bogus moral panic they complain about the...
View ArticleArthur Laffer's Paean to Trumponomics
Republican ideology says that tax cuts are always good for the economy. If they don’t work, that means you didn’t cut taxes hard enough. Art Laffer promoted this nonsense with a clear truth and a...
View ArticleThe Aikido Koans
We tend to associate Buddhist awakening with non-violence and not taking part in conflicts. It turns out that one can do this from the heart of martial arts, as Morihei Ueshiba did during several wars....
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday
The COP28 final declaration last week was disappointing. It doesn’t say to phase out fossil fuels, but it did name them for the first time. And we got a plan to triple renewables. The market realities...
View ArticleOral Diabetes Medications
An oral medicine to treat Type 2 diabetes would be a huge big deal, replacing insulin and other injections with a once-daily pill. Overcoming insulin resistance and promoting weight loss combined will...
View Article12/21 Good News Roundup: The GOP Suicide Pact
How do I hate me? Let me count the ways. I hate me to the depth and breadth and height my thoughts can reach when putting off the right, to do Its work and hasten my disgrace. 🎩 Elizabeth Barrett...
View ArticleThomas Piketty: A Brief History of Equality
In order to study advances toward equality, we must first examine the most vicious forms of inequality—a daunting task. Then we have to recognize that there can be no Big Bang Theory of equality. It...
View ArticleThe Koan of Refuge
The Buddha awoke, taught the Dharma for 45 years, and gathered the sangha of bhikkus and lay people around him. Each of these three is a Treasure giving us refuge from Samsara, the suffering from our...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday 12/26 What Did You Get for Christmas etc.?
We don’t have enough peace on Earth, good will toward sentient beings, but we’re making progress. Knocking down disinformation seems to be the quickest way to summon the political will to implement the...
View ArticleDiabetes Foot Monitoring; Fake Ozempic Warning
Those who have had amputations for diabetic foot ulcers are greatly at risk for more. Science can help, it turns out, simply by regular measurements of skin temperature. Don’t you love living in the...
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12/28 Good News Roundup: Of, By, and For the People
What would you like to do better next year? I suggest that we here highly resolve that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people,...
View ArticleIrving Fisher: Fictional Money and the "Business Cycle"
In mathematics it has been said that everything is either trivial or false. In economics, all too often, popular ideas are both trivial and false at the same time. Irving Fisher gave a clear...
View ArticleA Solid Iron Flute Played Upside-Down, Koan 1: Manjushri at the No-Gate
The compassion of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas is boundless. One calls, and one responds. Now, can you say a word of your own, without getting caught up in inside and outside, or one and the other? You...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: This Was the World That Was
In order to overcome Global Warming, we need to continue R&D; to increase funding for solutions, and decrease funding for making things worse; and to increase political will while overcoming...
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