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The Not So Skinny on Exercise Associated Muscle Cramps
I’m just about fully recovered by a sudden case of shin splints and calf cramps in both legs this past Monday. I did no running, just walked for a little over 4 miles between our house and the shopping mall. I thought I was doing pretty well until I got about a half mile from…
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Red Green Show Episode: “Coup De Grass”
I watched another episode of the Red Green Show last night called “Coup De Grass.” The one flaw in watching the episodes are commercials, which were rare when I started making my own YouTube videos years ago. Now they’re about as frequent as they are on TV. The one good thing about commercials on YouTube…
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Rounding@Iowa Podcast: “Advances in the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer”
This episode of Rounding@Iowa is about important medical advances in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. As you listen to Dr. Clancy interview Dr. Joseph Cullen about what’s new, you’ll hear a lot about high-dose intravenous Vitamin C. This can enhance treatment and improve response to chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Dr. Cullen’s most recent study about…
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Who Else Remembers the “Red Green Show”?
I was clicking through the web the other day and came across something that triggered a distant memory—The Red Green Show. It was a Canadian sketch comedy TV program that ran between 1991 and 2006. I used to watch it and now I can’t see how I ever found the time to do that. I…
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It Turns Out I Did Not Invent the Term “Zamboni Effect”
Today’s post connects weirdly with the one I wrote yesterday entitled “The Zamboni Effect,” in which I mistakenly believed I had invented the term “Zamboni Effect” based on my observation of what an ice resurfacing machine did to an ice rink in a local mall. It clarified the ice and also metaphorically, by extension, clarified…
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The Zamboni Effect
I was walking around the mall today doing ordinary old guy things: watching the Zamboni machine resurface the ice rink, which I’ve never seen before, by the way. The surface was pretty dull before the Zamboni team started. There were two kids in the seat, one young lady driving and the other young man pointing…
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Svengoolie Movie: “The Thing That Couldn’t Die”
The thing about this movie we saw last night on the Svengoolie show, “The Thing That Couldn’t Die,” is that it heads in the wrong direction from the start—with a woman who douses for treasure. Dousing or witching for water or other things employs a special stick or rods to find objects buried underground. I…
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Iowa Bills to Ban Vaccines and Require Vaccine Manufacturers to Waive Immunity Die
This week was what the Iowa Legislature calls funnel week. Today determined what bills stay alive and which one die. The bills opposing vaccines died for this legislative session: “mRNA vaccines: Senate File 360 proposed a ban on health care providers administering gene-based vaccines, like the COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna. Under the proposal, health care…
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What Does “Design Defect” of a Vaccine Mean In the Iowa Bill to Require Vaccine Manufacturers to Waive Immunity from Lawsuits?
Beats me. Sorry, just kidding. I’m just a little bleary from looking at the web sites about the definition of “design defect” related to vaccines as it applies to the Iowa bill to make vaccine manufacturers waive their immunity from lawsuits about vaccine related injuries. I am sympathetic to anyone who in fact has suffered…
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New Wrinkle on Iowa Bill to Oppose mRNA Vaccines in Iowa
This is a follow up to yesterday’s post about the Iowa legislature’s proposition of a new law that would essentially ban mRNA vaccines in Iowa. I don’t understand the numbers and codes on the new sections, but the new one proposes that manufacturers of vaccines would have to waive immunity from lawsuits arising from “a…
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