“Thus Prozac, which initially improves serotonin transport, eventually fails because it facilitates the destruction of that which is being transported. In this view, Prozac is like a trucker who is careless with his…

Dolors& Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—10/8/2012—Debate # 1 highlight: Romney won’t fund public broadcasting if it means borrowing from the Chinese. Does it make any difference who lends us money? If…

“Why waste scarce time if it takes as long to get and stay fit as convention suggests—about 150 minutes a week? But it doesn’t. In fact, just the opposite.” Sanford Rose Dolors &…

“The recession has reduced the birth rate below replacement levels: it is now 1.9. Unless we let in a lot of new immigrants, future output will sag. But we don’t exactly welcome immigrants,…

“At the beginning of the day, I am a killer, savaging the formic breed. At the end, I fear being killed, torn apart by the 20,000 to 50,000 amperes of current released in…

“Hubris offends those on high. Herodotus tells us that the Almighty loves to smite with his bolts only the bigger animals, those who exalt themselves. Herodotus either knew physics or the mind of…

“It was not an especially large engagement by the standards of the war that was to start the next day. It produced only around a tenth of the combined German and Russian casualties…

“The literature says that, with the possible exception of around 3 percent of the population, we don’t fare well unless we have at least seven or seven-and-a-half hours of shut-eye. (Nor, apparently, do…

“So while insomniacs may eventually doze, they rarely rest—not well. As a result, they are fatigued during the day. But not fatigued enough to take a nap. The true insomniac, as opposed to…

“People post pictures of themselves and of their diseased parts and invite “friends” to offer diagnoses—a practice that is standard, with somewhat greater legitimacy, on various other social networking sites dedicated to medical…