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Moore Lowdown
What the Israel-Palestine Conflict Can Teach Us About National Health

What the Israel-Palestine Conflict Can Teach Us About National Health

Aug 12, 2014 - The goings-on in Gaza are big news right now. But the current flare-up is symptomatic of the perpetual unhealthiness—physical, psychological, and moral—that plagues the region.

Celebrity Health
Ebola - Here, There and Everywhere

Ebola - Here, There and Everywhere

Aug 11, 2014 - I wouldn’t be worried to sit next to someone with the Ebola virus on the Tube, as long as they don’t vomit on you or something - Peter Piot co-discoverer of Ebola 1976

Celebrity Health
Hooked on Hookah

Hooked on Hookah

Jul 28, 2014 - Hookah is healthier and less addictive than cigarettes, right? Think again. Results of several studies suggest that hookah is far more dangerous than cigarettes.

Moore Lowdown
Screening Yourself from Both UV Rays and Bogus Information

Screening Yourself from Both UV Rays and Bogus Information

Jul 21, 2014 - You're better off without sunscreen. At least, that's what a few recent articles are telling you. But guess what you're really better off without?

Moore Lowdown
When Government Should Keep Its Hands Off the Wheel

When Government Should Keep Its Hands Off the Wheel

Jul 5, 2014 - A recent brouhaha over government restrictions on the aging of cheese is a case in point of how the feds sometimes seem not to know where they're needed and where they're not.

Moore Lowdown
Soylent and the False Equivalency of Food and Nutrition

Soylent and the False Equivalency of Food and Nutrition

Jun 10, 2014 - A food-replacement product is getting a lot of buzz. But for all that might be gained by maximizing the efficiency of one's nutritional intake, so much more might be lost.

Moore Lowdown
Fixing Our Priorities; or, Writing Blank Checks to Bureaucracies Is Always a Bad Idea

Fixing Our Priorities; or, Writing Blank Checks to Bureaucracies Is Always a Bad Idea

Jun 4, 2014 - Los Angeles County voters awarded schools billions of dollars for upgrades and repairs. But half a decade later administrators are supplying students with iPads, even though the backlog for basic repairs runs into the tens of thousands.

Moore Lowdown
Incarceration Nation: America's Unhealthy Obsession with Jailing Its Citizens

Incarceration Nation: America's Unhealthy Obsession with Jailing Its Citizens

May 21, 2014 - Over the last 40 years the United States has sacrificed schools and other means of social betterment so as to incarcerate a greater number of nonviolent offenders than ever before. It's a practice that has damaged the fabric of our nation...

Dr. X
Destiny at Sea

Destiny at Sea

May 14, 2014 - What about Dr X and my Destiny! I was still looking for a big case where I would make a difference

Moore Lowdown
Minimizing the Worker: Why Attacks on Raising the Minimum Wage Come Up Short

Minimizing the Worker: Why Attacks on Raising the Minimum Wage Come Up Short

May 14, 2014 - Over the course of a generation productivity in the American workplace has doubled and CEO pay has increased exponentially. So with all that success, why has the minimum wage failed to keep pace even with simple cost-of-living increases?