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Talking Tuesday: Catch-Up Edition
Posted on May 17, 2016 2 Comments
The best kinds of friends are those who you can lose contact with for months and then catch-up with quickly over some coffee or hot tea or hot chocolate… Or a beer. In this episode, I try to catch-up with you after being gone a while.
To the Public Health Graduates of 2016
Posted on May 16, 2016 2 Comments
Dear graduates, I am very, very jealous of all of you, in a good way. You are graduating and starting your professional careers in public health at a very exciting and challenging time. From Zika in the Americas to Yellow Fever in Africa, to MERS in the Middle East, and the refugees in Europe… Believe […]
The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio Must Not Proceed
Posted on May 10, 2016 3 Comments
Here is some very thoughtful commentary from Dr. Amir Attaran published in Harvard Public Health Review. http://harvardpublichealthreview.org/off-the-podium-why-rios-2016-olympic-games-must-not-proceed/ Here’s the clincher from that opinion article: “Which leads to a simple question: But for the Games, would anyone recommend sending an extra half a million visitors into Brazil right now? Of course not: mass migration into the […]
Lincoln Marathon and Half Marathon. Done.
Posted on May 4, 2016 2 Comments
This last weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting my brother in Lincoln, Nebraska, as we finished a months-long plan to run the Lincoln Marathon. (I would run the half. He would run the full marathon.) Mom and my little sister came along to cheer us on, so I got to see them as well. […]
The people who were there for you
Posted on April 24, 2016
About a year ago, I told you about the people you were going to meet. Hopefully, in your lifetime, you will have met great people, people who inspire you. If not, look for them. They are all around you. But what about the people who were there for you? The other night, in one of […]
Though the body yells, “Stop!” the spirit cries, “Never!”
Posted on April 21, 2016
I’ll be attempting to run the Lincoln (Nebraska) marathon with my younger brother in about ten days, and, as is often the case with me and these things, I am not ready at all. The reason I am not ready is not because I don’t want to be ready. I want very much to be […]
Story of a thesis (Part IV)
Posted on April 20, 2016 3 Comments
In the first part of this series, I told you about Baltimore and the challenges facing the Charmed City. The second part was all about the available data, and what those data told us, which is a lot. In the third part, I told you the story of some kids and how their social network […]
Run the red light… I’ll pay the ticket
Posted on April 11, 2016 1 Comment
I was sixteen years old when I graduated high school. Did I ever tell you that? My birthday falls in January, so the school system wanted to hold me over until I was six-and-a-half before starting school. Mom wouldn’t have any of it. She had placed me in kindergarten at four-and-a-half, and I was doing […]
Eating just a little bit better now and then
Posted on April 8, 2016 3 Comments
On the last day of our trip to Italy, my wife and I were sitting at a coffee shop enjoying a very strong and very expensive coffee. As we looked out the front door, we saw a woman with three young boys sitting on a small bridge. (Venice has a lot of bridges.) All three […]
Why hasn’t anyone told me about Social Strain Theory?
Posted on April 7, 2016 3 Comments
One of the questions that I see a lot in the social media postings from the Baltimore City Police Department is “Why?” Many people ask why one person would kill another, or they ask why anyone would kill a child. Then along come the trolls and write a stupid answer to what is a legit […]
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