Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Thursday, April 02, 2026

Review: The Haywire Heart

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 One of my colleagues died in 2024, supposedly during a bike ride. The guy was fit, frequently passing me as though I was standing still, an...
Monday, February 09, 2026

Review: The Fault in Our Stars

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 Last year, I read Everything is Tuberculosis and came away feeling dumber for having read the book. Of course, I'd forgotten that the ...
Monday, February 02, 2026

Review: The Age of Diagnosis

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 The Age of Diagnosis is written by a neurologist/psychologist.  It starts with a discussion of Huntington's disease, which is a geneti...
Monday, February 03, 2025

Review: Keep Sharp

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 My wife checked out Keep Sharp from the library and it showed up on my Kindle, so I ended up reading it as a palate cleanser.  I remember ...
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Thursday, December 26, 2024

Review: How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't

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 How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't is a book by Yale doctor and physician Perry Wilson. It is readable, funny in many parts, and w...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Long Term Review: Anker Battery/USB Adapter for Resmed AirMini

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 I used my new Anker Powerbank with converter cable on this past sailing trip. While not a certified CPAP device, it operated with extreme ...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Review: Fenix 7 Pro Sapphire Solar

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Through a series of unlikely events, I managed to snare a Fenix 7 Pro Sapphire Solar at an excellent price. Given that I had also gotten a ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

New Resmed AirMini Camping Setup

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 I've been traveling with the Pilot-24 medical grade certified battery for camping and sailing with my ResMed Air Mini. The battery is f...
Monday, February 21, 2022

Review: Evolution Gone Wrong

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 Evolution Gone Wrong is the book about humanity's poorly designed bodies.  This is such a good genre of books, that I could read multi...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Review: The Genetic Lottery - Why DNA matters for Social Equality

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  The Genetic Lottery is a book about the social and research implications of gene studies and research. It sets out to defend gene studies...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Review: T - The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

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 T is written by Carole Hooven, a Harvard evolutionary biologist. The book is about testosterone, but as a side effect it teaches many inci...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Review: Immune

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  Immune is a layman's introduction to immunology. Written by a German science popularizer, it's written in easily understood vernac...
Monday, December 27, 2021

Review: The Remarkable Life of the Skin

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 I read The Remarkable Life of the Skin during a sailing trip in the Caribbean, which made the early chapters on how tanning and melanin wo...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Review: Why Geese Don't Get Obese

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 Why Geese Don't Get Obese  is a book on the physiology of animals in comparison to our own, and how our lifestyle as well as our unique...
Monday, May 03, 2021

Review: Extreme Medicine

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 Extreme Medicine is a book about how exploration transformed medicine and vice-versa, and starts off with the discussion of Robert F Scott...
Thursday, April 22, 2021

Review: Exercised

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  Exercised is an evolutionary biologist's view of the modern invention of exercise. It turns out that Dan Lieberman was the person whos...
Monday, January 25, 2021

Switching to Bar Soap

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 I'd been using Nivea 3-in-1 shampoo and body wash for myself and the kids through a series of Amazon deals, but then ran out in the mi...
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Thursday, January 07, 2021

Review: Clean

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 Clean was on the Smithsonian 20 best science books of the year, and it was written by a doctor who's a staff writer at The Atlantic, s...
Wednesday, September 02, 2020

Review: Temtop M10 Air Quality Monitor

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 With the fires raging near us, I broke out all the air purifiers I bought last year during Amazon Prime Day, purchased specifically for suc...
Monday, February 03, 2020

Review: Gut - The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ

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Gut is a strange book. The author, Giulia Enders has a fun sense of humor (I guess that's what it takes to be a gastroenterologist): ...