The Kids Are (Mostly) All Right… It’s The Adults I Worry About My social algorithm may be broken. Lately I’ve been seeing a flood of sentimental posts lamenting how “kids these days” wouldn’t survive back in my day. Depending on the author, “my day” ranges any…

Fifty years of progress for kids, has been been overshadowed by a crisis unfolding for adults.

We cracked the riddle of SIDS; maybe we can tackle opioids too.

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Soft Pretzels and the Quantified Life Some of my earliest memories involve standing barefoot on cold metal in a suburban New Jersey shoe store, my foot being wrangled into place by a salesman wielding a Brannock Device. The ritual was …

Measuring our foot size, our steps, our pulse… but what really counts? And can we somehow get ionizing radiation involved? #RetroScientist #XRay #QuantifiedSelf