The US government’s bi-partisan war on your right to publish embarrassing videos of yourself proceeds apace. As of March 6, Reuters reports, the White House is “working with Congress” on legislation that would give US president Joe Biden authority to pretend that he can ban TikTok.
When in life does one come to confront the tough truth that each of us will eventually die? In my years as an internist caring for young and old alike, some people understand this early, and some people never get it. In denying death, we intensify our fear of it.
What is really fair In the March 2 paper, there were stories and letters to the Editor illustrating that many people need some vocabulary lessons. Then, when they speak words, they can use the correct word and understand the correct meaning of those words.
China is now leading the U.S. in 37 of 44 technology fields, according to the March 2, 2023 summary by The Guardian. Their data comes from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute that looked at the top ten-percent of cited papers worldwide across science fields. This confirms an earlier August 10, 2022 release by Japan’s National Institute of Science and Technology that examined the top one percent of highly cited research papers worldwide and found China now produced 27.2 percent while the U.S. followed with 24.9 percent. In total output of research papers during 2018-2020, Chinese researchers published 407,181 while U.S. researchers only wrote 293,434.
Voter suppression bills are once again making their way through the state legislature. The justification — or lack thereof as the case may be — for these bills lies with the unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud made during the 2020 election.
The 2023 session is moving fast and we are at the next step in the process which is turn around. This is when all the bills that passed in each chamber will now be discussed and scrutinized in the opposite chamber.
Dear Doctors: Our dad is 77 and is losing his hearing. He was fitted for a hearing aid, but he won’t use it. I just read there’s a connection between hearing loss and dementia. He’s actually worried about dementia, and if that’s true, it might get him to use his hearing aid. Can you talk about that?
Each month I want to provide you with regular updates about what’s going on in our nation’s capital and throughout the 4th District of Kansas. Here’s what happened in February.
It feels just like yesterday, because of how fast time moves when there is no time in the day to slow down and breathe, that we launched a new project. A project that has deadlines approaching quite rapidly.
The BOE was clumsy I went to the school board meeting Monday to speak my piece regarding the potential closing of Walton, but ended up focused on the uproar over a vaping wrestler. As I understand this, the wrestler dumped his girlfriend for reasons unknown; the wrestler chose to flaunt rules and law by vaping on school property and was filmed in so doing; the wrestler qualified for the State Championship Match; the jilted girlfriend and her mother then shared the vaping video on-line, not with the school; the school needed to uphold a code of conduct to which the wrestler had previously agreed, but also wanted to protect him from the consequences of what was clearly on-line bullying; some school board members called for a special meeting of debatable legitimacy to evaluate this mess and attempted to adjust policy to allow management to somehow deal with an unwinnable matter; word then went through the community that the school system was trying to grant an athlete special privilege to enhance our chances at State, which was how this was first presented to me and, I’m sorry to say, was my first reaction.