Spinal Stability, Stiffness, and Six Blind Men & an Elephant

My husband and daughter work as civil engineers. Early in their college education they studied “statics”. Statics is the analysis of loads acting on physical systems that are in static equilibrium with their environment, that don’t experience acceleration. Later in college, they also studied something called “dynamics”, which is the branch of mechanics dealing with the movement of objects and the forces that drive that movement. But even things that civil engineers consider static, like Read more…

We are a stack of Joints

  The Human Body is Baked From a Recipe of Integrated Ingredients When I clean my house I start in one room and within 5 minutes I’m in another room doing something else. Eventually the house sort of gets clean. When I begin to write I start with a topic or concept, do some review and research, and then I’m off to the races with a plethora of thoughts and ideas that ultimately (and ponderously) Read more…

Float ’em on a Lotus

One of my neighbors just told me a story. Mark explained that the police regularly stop him.  Mark is a person of color. Recently he was treated particularly badly and disrespectfully during one of those stops.  My guess is that Mark is targeted due to the fact he is not white. After he was released (he was more or less “held” by the police as they searched his car) he returned home and did something Read more…