A recent Johns Hopkins study found that those who have had COVID, even cases that are asymptomatic or showed mild symptoms, are at greater risk of heart problems in future. This, then, is tragically another aspect of long COVID. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/covid-and-the-heart-it-spares-no-one The key statement: "People who got COVID-19 and were asymptomatic…

Very nice. While walking around a couch, I once had a direct experience of eternity. This was not an abstract idea but a perception; a knowing. I realized in an instant that eternity is not, as I had believed, the summation of all moments from the start of the universe…

Addicts will rationalize almost anything to support their addictions. Many steal from loved ones. It's tragic that addiction is so widely misunderstood. Consider: Which animal has the most miserable existence?

Don’t be a coward — they need you most of all then Not only is it cruel to leave your beloved animal alone when they are dying, but you may miss out on something extraordinary. I was there with my beloved cat at the end, getting ready for the euthanasia…

Thought-provoking. And noise-induced hearing loss would be labeled a pandemic if it were due to a pathogen. Speaking of thought-provoking: your title hearkens back to Shakespeare, and a very good analysis in The Atlantic makes the case that the actual author of those plays was a contemporary woman who lived…

Climate change is making many things worse that people don't connect to climate change. More extreme wind shear during flights is an example. More extreme weather in general is another. I wonder how long it will be until wildfires ground planes, apart from their other effects on air.

One ideology with many names; it’s a chameleon — I stated in my book, A Celebration Society, that fascism is the ascendant ideology of the 21st century. I also pointed out that fascism usually arises from within democracies, which it then, when successful, usurps and demolishes. I look at most of the world’s strongmen as either fascists or would-be…

I guess that's one of the "prices" you pay for living on a small island. Given the craziness unfolding in the US, it seems a small price. (Didn't Robert Heinlein, writing in his Future History Timeline, predict a time around now in the US called "The Crazy Years"? He did…

I respectfully suggest that the kind of regenerative transformation described by Mr. Wahl and Ms. Macy can most readily be attained by offering to people a way forward that: * Does not require a reduction to their standards of living, which most will fiercely resist, and * Combines greater abundance…