I've used Medisafe for years to remind me to take my medications every day. It's very easy to use and includes extra services like drug interactions. https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/10/medisafe-integration-with-apples-health-records-brings-easy-medication-management-to-ios Medisafe integration with Apple's Health Records brings easy medication management to iOS By AppleInsider Staff Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 08:05 pm PT (11:05 pm ET) Medication management app Medisafe … Continue reading Medisafe (medicine reminder app) now integrated with Apple Health — handy
Month: October 2018
How Feminist Dystopian Fiction Is Channeling Women’s Anger and Anxiety (NY Times)
How Feminist Dystopian Fiction Is Channeling Women’s Anger and Anxiety Image Sophie Mackintosh’s unsettling debut novel, “The Water Cure,” grew out of a simple, sinister question: What if masculinity were literally toxic?CreditCreditTom Jamieson for The New York Times By Alexandra Alter Oct. 8, 2018 63 On a desolate island, three sisters have been raised in isolation, … Continue reading How Feminist Dystopian Fiction Is Channeling Women’s Anger and Anxiety (NY Times)
Correct pronunciation, but should you switch how you say these words?
Articles like this amuse me. English is about as plastic, flexible, and mutable a language as there is. That's one of the reasons that (so far at least), it's often the common language used all over the world. But because it's constantly changing, I personally feel that being rigid over how things are to be … Continue reading Correct pronunciation, but should you switch how you say these words?
If Ethiopia takes charge of the water on its land, what will happen to Egypt?
Wars have been fought about water before, but rarely have the consequences between literally between life and death. Many Egyptians (and more to come) have barely enough water to survive essentially because Ethiopia and other upstream countries haven't previously diverted any of the Blue Nile and other tributaries. That status quo is about to change. … Continue reading If Ethiopia takes charge of the water on its land, what will happen to Egypt?
Student debt in US approaching $1 trillion as it cripples a generation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/07/student-debt-30s-40s-election-issues? Voices of America ‘We’re struggling to survive’: student debt still weighing down people over 30by Megan Carpentier Thu 7 Jul 2016 07.00 EDTLast modified on Fri 14 Jul 2017 15.06 EDTPeople who live around Albany are used to having to explain that being from New York does not automatically mean that you’re from New York City. It can be … Continue reading Student debt in US approaching $1 trillion as it cripples a generation
One man’s life with $100,000 of student debt
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/21/the-inescapable-weight-of-my-100000-student-debt? The long read The inescapable weight of my $100,000 student debt MH Miller left university with a journal full of musings on Virginia Woolf and a vast financial burden. He is one of 44 million US graduates struggling to repay a total of $1.4tn. Were they right to believe their education was ‘priceless’? Tue … Continue reading One man’s life with $100,000 of student debt
Man Perfectly Explains Women’s Rage Today Using Brutal Analogy That All Men Can Understand
Few men have a gut-deep understanding of how women's experience with and reasonable fear of assault and sexual violence affect every facet of their everyday lives from where they live to what they wear, what they say to whether they can be alone in a place that someone might enter -- everything. This reframing of … Continue reading Man Perfectly Explains Women’s Rage Today Using Brutal Analogy That All Men Can Understand
Government-supplied birth control — it’s being gutted — does anyone care?
I remember the marvel of when birth control pills were first available. In Massachusetts, doctors would prescribe it only if if you were married so I borrowed a friend's wedding ring. At the time, the pills were affordable. I agree with this article but think the core issue is simply that the drug companies have … Continue reading Government-supplied birth control — it’s being gutted — does anyone care?
The sounds your cat makes are pretty easy to understand
7 sounds your cat makes and what they mean Lindsay Mack, October 16, 2018 Cats are telling us different things depending on the noise they make. Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images From chirps to meows to purrs, cats make an amazing range of noises. For the most part, cats meow or growl as a way to … Continue reading The sounds your cat makes are pretty easy to understand
Is social collapse resulting from global warming as imminent as this writer thinks?
Resources from water to food to energy are going to become increasingly scarce, at the very least on a regional basis. So far, much of the subsequent unrest has been confined to refuge migrations where large groups of the underserved and unprivileged have been unable to resist the temporary (then permanent) confinement to camps. Those … Continue reading Is social collapse resulting from global warming as imminent as this writer thinks?
Is the planet over capacity? Huge cruise ships in small ports may be the canary
Time to rock the boat? Cruise ships can destroy the very destinations they sell to us March 1, 2016 8.25am EST atm2003 / shutterstock Author Jillian Rickly Assistant Professor in Tourism Management and Marketing, University of Nottingham Disclosure statement Jillian Rickly does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or … Continue reading Is the planet over capacity? Huge cruise ships in small ports may be the canary
Hurricanes like Michael, Harvey, Maria are not natural disasters — they’re far worse — and we need to prepare for that
The hurricanes we are now getting are no longer "natural disasters" as their strength, water load, wind speeds, duration, are all far out of the normal. They have been greatly affected the increased water temperatures of the ocean that they've traversed. Humans need to attach the concept of climate change to these storms. At this … Continue reading Hurricanes like Michael, Harvey, Maria are not natural disasters — they’re far worse — and we need to prepare for that
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