once ive let go the reason and ability to care in my mind, it became very quiet. for some time now, my biological guardians and their words do not haunt me anymore. the demons in my head, the…

On July 13, 2026, in an opinion by Senior Judge Guido Calebresi, the Second Circuit delivered its opinion. Given Judge Calebresi’s confusion at oral argument, between causation and association, and…

Last summer, the BAA announced a new downhill results index that would penalize qualifying times from races with excessive net elevation drop. This applied to the various Tunnel races, REVEL races,…

Contact Us If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us at info@liftosaur.com ! Summary Liftosaur is an app that combines both weightlifting programming part (that people sometimes use…

🏃‍♂️ Early long morning run completed. 3 hours of running, which also could be interpreted as swimming.

Telfa pads are non-adhering gauze bandages especially useful for wounds that are lightly oozing. They come in two sizes--2x3 and 3x4. But they aren't what is wanted for dealing with wounds that need…

Vinay Prasad is an anti-woke Trump collaborator, but I like his critiques of cancer care, and I suspect I’d like him if I met him. JERSEY CITY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2026.  If I was a real journalist,…

I did not have good day today. The oncology nurse had told me this would happen and today it shook hands with me. It wasn't so much that I felt wrung out hard tired, it was the zero lack of anything.…

It is easy to feel virtuous about food policy when you have the luxury of choosing differently. Sanctimonious food policy might feel right. A new study in the Journal of Health Communication finds…

My medication makes me feel constantly fatigued. It’s super annoying and something that I fight to counteract. The fatigue makes me want to lay in bed all day and do...

Here’s a bunch of videos that I collected during the (so far) six week long quarantine that everyone in China experienced. The videos are a selection of virus related subjects but generally relate to…

Time: 14min / Distance: 2.83km

Pro tip for the Aussies – if you are due for a Covid booster get it before the end of the month, as from October it won’t be free anymore!

A 14,324 kg leg session shows what tonnage misses: the bodyweight lunges supplied 22% of the reps and none of the recorded load. It was also the first session actually run in daylight — with no sleep…

September 12 2026 - 18:47 Last night I downed like 1300 mg acetaminophen, and got in the shower with the hottest setting possible, and then I was able to…

The wrong habits can destroy your body and your sanity. For two days, I woke up in the middle of night and couldn’t get back to sleep. My mind was rushing with countless thoughts. Deep breathing…

Morning run with Taher. Exploring the cemetery art installations and neighborhood. The hills are alive with the sound of muggy. Stat Value Distance 5.29 km Duration 34:41 Pace 6:33 /km Elevation Gain…

Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at <my address>. Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that loop from my house. Use OSM data. It…

I stumbled upon this post from Parker Adey about eating fruits whole or including the skin: https://pgadey.ca/blog/eating-fruit-skins/ I’ve been eating the entire apple my whole life. Nobody…

What I'm... Working on Fixing issues in online course content Contemplating Karma Rebirth What am I attached to? How should I do my next meal plan with maybe oat shakes Why run (exercise)? Reading…

Adding another layer to the ongoing measles story, Amish parents in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania have spoken to local station CBS 21 about their families’ vaccination decisions.…

Geoff’s Narration The GIST   Health Update: Lions, Tigers, and Bears, Oh My! No lions or tigers, but plenty of bears (or at least one bear). A black bear swiped the dogs’ food while…

[sis in law also ran]

How damaging is PM2.5 pollution? Globally, PM2.5 is considered the largest or 2nd largest cause of premature death.[1,2] In the U.S., PM2.5 air pollution is likely the number one environmental cause…

It was hot but I got through it. Running once a week means each one is hard. Chicago, Illinois, United States (Halsted to Larabee)

Watch Listen “In a phase transition, two competing forces reach a balance. A small shift in temperature or pressure flips the entire system.” Safi Bahcall My shirt rubbed my nipple raw when I moved…

“I fear for the survival of this once admirable institution,” says David M. Nathan, a giant in the field of diabetes research. These words, reported by MedPage Today, captures an issue…

mend yourselves so that you can mend others

September 2nd was my mother’s birthday. She would have been 103. Of course I can’t help thinking of her on that day, with all my mixed feelings and memories. One of my more vivid ones, with lots of…

A personal body-mod essay about implanting chains in my upper thigh and finding comfort in making one small part of my body feel chosen

If you've never experienced the lack of motivation and intense fatigue that depression can cause, the accumulation of garbage and dirty clothes during a dark stretch might seem foreign, or even…

The doctor is concerned I’m not getting enough sleep. “What wakes you up at night?”, she asked. Last night I woke up to the cat removing its left paw from one side of my face before…

Meditation can damn near be whatever you want, so why not gaming?

I’m really excited to run my second half marathon this weekend at the Cherry City Half Marathon in Salem, Oregon! My first one was back in April at the Eugene Half Marathon, where I finished in…

Knowledge from my 10+ year journey as a weightlifting nerd, distilled

Post-pizza nap. Should have gone earlier in the morning when it was less muggy, and I was fresher. Good run despite that. Neighborhood has now grown backyard bouncy castles. 🏰 Stat Value Distance…

What type of social mobility impacts wellbeing the most? The type that boosts sense of purpose, hope, optimism, personal agency and the confidence that comes from mastery, progress and…

As the kids would say. With three days since my last run and the left knee feeling stiff after possibly twisting it while sleeping (?!), I opted to take it easy (don’t sue me, Don Henley!) and…

Everyone shoulders burdens differently. How do practitioners do it?

I bought a treadmill a month back. The thought was that if I can reduce the friction, I can just get out of bed anytime and do a 30 minute run, with my running clothes and shoes next to it. It works,…

'I run intent on winning', says St Paul. The metaphor speaks to a time in which anyone who doesn’t go regularly to the gym, or prepare to run marathons, is looked on as a bit of a freak.

For the past two, maybe three months I have been eating one tin of sardines (sometimes mackerel) per day in the mornings. I silently went into this kicking and screaming (it is an acquired taste…

I originally built Protocol Pilot for myself, to keep track of a complicated medication trial that involved slowly ramping up my dosing and keeping track of side effects & my resulting experience…

Anyone who takes care of blunt trauma has seen the Morel-Lavallee lesion (M-L). Here’s an obvious one because it’s acute: The M-L lesion is essentially a closed degloving injury in which the skin…

Mood: Good Friday was pretty chill, way more chill than Thursday was because I pretty much just carried my bag with me and didn't bring my helmet. I got to do my workout as well today and I tried…

driving from one emotional wreck to the next

The marines organized a stair climb event this morning to commemorate 9/11. Climbed 3 floors 38 times. They had their flaks on and one of them even had a gas mask on. I was breathing hard at the end…

Our later life is perhaps dictated even more by expectations than biology. Over half a century ago people believed (they “knew”) that, if you were lucky and made it to retirement, at 60 years of age,…

Having just spent a few days supporting my mom while she was in the hospital, there's a thought that I can't get out of my mind. Emergency services on their...

Using AlphaFold, AlphaMissense and AlphaGenome to make a Variant of Uncertain Significance slightly less uncertain.