The “Green Pope” Loves Science and Is Cautious of AI
By MIKE MAGEE
By all accounts, they were mutually supportive. He was three years older and the chief scientific adviser to the world’s most powerful religious leader. The Scientific American called him “the greatest scientist of all time,” and not because he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry a decade earlier for explaining the nuts and bolts of ozone formation. It was his blunt truthfulness and ecological advocacy that earned the organization’s respect.
Paul Crutzan is no longer alive. He died on February 4, 2021 in Mainz, Germany at the age of 87. What attracted the 86 year old “Green Pope” to Paul were t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Climate Change Mike Magee Pope Francis Source Type: blogs
156 Two Word Quotes on Life, Motivation, Self-Love and Much More
In this post I'd like to keep it really short and simple.
Just the best and most powerful two word phrases, quotes and sayings.
The ones that get right to the message. Brief and timeless thoughts on motivation, work, success, self-love, joy and optimism.
I hope you’ll find something here to inspire you. Something that gets stuck in your head today and this week and helps propel you forward towards your goals and dreams.
And if you want even more quick and powerful inspiration then check out this post with four word quotes and this one filled with three word quotes.
Inspirational Two Word Quotes
“Dream big.”
“Love ...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - October 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expectancy gains. Adding four more ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expecta...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 136, Thursday October 5
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday October 5 at 1pm PST 4pm EST were delivery & platform expert Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis); author & ponderer of odd juxtapositions Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard) and policy expert consultant/author Rosemarie Day (@Rosemarie_Day1).
You can see the video below & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Matthew Holt rosemarieday Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs
We ’re All In The Hot Seat Now.
BY MIKE MAGEE
It’s not that easy living in the “Big Easy” these days and co-existing with a world dominated by water concerns. When Times-Picayune gossip columnist Betty Guillaud (as the folklore goes) “coined New Orleans’ undisputed nickname” in the 1960’s, it was a lifestyle eponym meant to favorably contrast life in “The Big Easy” with hard living in “The Big Apple.”
That was well before August 23, 2004, when the levies failed to hold back the Gulf waters, and 1,392 souls perished leaving two names to last in infamy – Katrina and Brownie, of “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job”...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Cholera Mike Magee New York City Saltwater Source Type: blogs
Altman, Ive, and AI
BY KIM BELLARD
Earlier this year I urged that we Throw Away That Phone, arguing that the era of the smartphone should be over and that we should get on to the next big thing. Now, I don’t have any reason to think that either Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Jony Ive, formerly and famously of Apple and now head of design firm LoveFrom, read my article but apparently they have the same idea.
Last week The Information and then Financial Times reported that OpenAi and LoveFrom are “in advanced talks” to form a venture in order to build the “iPhone of artificial intelligence.” Softbank may fund the venture ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech AI ChatGPT iPhone Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
60 Teamwork Quotes for Working Smart and Smoothly Together
Teamwork is essential in many areas of life to go further. To find success an individual could only dream of.
No matter if that’s in your business, at work, in school, while playing sports or with family and friends.
But good or even great teamwork isn’t something that’s always easy to achieve.
So in this post I’d like to share the best and most helpful teamwork quotes that I’ve found.
To motivate new viewpoints and progress, inspire collaboration and bring your common vision or goal over obstacles and then into reality.
And if you want more motivation for work, school or your business then be sure to have a loo...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - October 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 135, Thursday September 28
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday September 28 at 1pm PST 4pm EST are futurist Jeff Goldsmith: author & ponderer of odd juxtapositions Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); and patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson (@mlmillenson).
You can see the video below & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Jeff Goldsmith Kim Bellard Matthew Holt Michael Millenson Source Type: blogs
War — and Health Care — on the Cheap
By KIM BELLARD
Like many of you, I’m watching the war in Ukraine with great interest and much support. For all the fuss about expensive weapons — like F-16 fighters, Abrams tanks, Stryker and Bradley armored fighting vehicles, Patriot missile defense systems, Javelin anti-tank missiles, Himars long range missiles, and various types of high tech drones — what I’m most fascinated with is how Ukraine is using inexpensive, practically homemade drones as a key weapon.
It’s a new way of waging war. And when I say “waging war,” I can’t help but also think “providing health care.” It’s not s...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Drones health care Kim Bellard Ukraine Warfare Source Type: blogs
