Written by Stephan Segraves @ Stephan Segraves
From Live and Let’s Fly: In the years to come, we will only begin to understand the devastation our overreaction to the pandemic inflicted upon the most vulnerable among us: the children who were kept out of school, the elderly and hospital patients who were separated from loved ones and made to endure pain alone,…
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Long Covid and Brain Gray Matter Loss
Written by Stephan Segraves @ Stephan Segraves
A study out of the UK has found a significant number of Covid-19 patients who become hospitalized and recover have a noticeable amount of gray matter lost in their brains. The full study is here, but the important excerpt: We used structural and functional brain scans from before and after infection, to compare longitudinal brain…
Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Information Overload
Written by Stephan Segraves @ Stephan Segraves
A bit of skepticism is a healthy thing. We should question motives, goals, and drivers in our leaders and in their policies. However, it seems like the sheer amount of information is stifling our ability to take in, process, and move through the chaff. News websites are run by a few different major news organizations…
Cargo is Piling up Everywhere
Written by Stephan Segraves @ Stephan Segraves
From NPR — Soaring demand from Americans for everything from iPads to cars is leading to a surge in freight crossing the Pacific, hitting business owners such as Nephew. When the cargo with his games finally arrived on the West Coast, the container was immediately emptied so it could be sent back to China for…
