Revised! How Words Manipulate Us… Deceptive language surrounds us! We continually receive words and images that mislead, misinform and try to manipulate an audience. Revision on 3/29/2023: I added Deceptive Statement number 8, and the section “Lying by Omission and … Continue reading
Your Phone Needs A Second Passcode… Screen Time – a setting on your iPhone – is about to become your best friend! Why? Because it will protect you and your finances from some really bad stuff. Read on… WSJ Sounds … Continue reading
A Critical Review, and Practical Tips – ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot developed by OpenAI. They have made this artificial intelligence (AI) tool available for public sampling and it has captured many headlines. Fortune calls it possibly … Continue reading
Ten New Word Lists! The Scrabble 7th Edition dictionary has arrived, and here is your update of useful word lists! These update my 6th Edition lists in a previous blog. By “dictionary” I mean the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) … Continue reading
Starting Words & Strategies… Wordle Cousins are enjoyable games in their own right. And my Wordle blog was so well received that I can’t help offering you tips for playing what I call Wordle Cousins. These are games inspired by … Continue reading
Plus, Starting Words for Quordle and Squareword… Wordle hit the media just as we needed some post-pandemic therapy. Today’s blog is an ode to Josh Wardle’s brilliant game, with trivia, tips and especially, tactics to enhance your fun. Distinctive Features … Continue reading
Understanding Is Sketchy, Prevention Largely Guesswork… Dementia, including Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), is the most serious health threat facing seniors. Today’s blog will use the terms dementia and Alzheimer’s interchangeably, because AD accounts for 60 to 80% of all dementia. Dementia … Continue reading
A Psychological Perspective… No-Vax reasons puzzle everyone I know. We understand misinformation. We understand making decisions that harmonize with friends and family. And we understand saying “no” to vaccines as a protest against many other things that cause us despair … Continue reading
Frequency Lowering versus Speech Synthesis… The ideal hearing aid is the goal of today’s blog. It’s a follow-on to the previous blog, in which we explained why most hearing aids are so inadequate. Here are the major sections: – The … Continue reading
The Shaky State of Available Options… A hearing aid is probably in your future, if you live long enough. And perhaps, even in your present! This blog shares my misadventures with a hearing aid and explains why the need is … Continue reading
Our Words Can Heal Others… “Person First” is shorthand for a special way to talk about chronic disease. In fact, about anything that makes another person’s life more difficult, day by day or year by year. The idea is, when … Continue reading
Vaccines Reduce All Causes of Death… Yes, we need a magic shield! Coronavirus is evil in its own right: it wants to clog your lungs and kill you. However, it brings many more symptoms with it, such as fever, cough, … Continue reading
Our New Normal… COVID-19 national immunity is beginning to emerge, which will lead the US to a new post-COVID normal. The “lessons learned” in the previous blog provide the necessary ingredients. The path we take will not totally satisfy anyone. However, … Continue reading
What’s Lost, What’s Gained… COVID-19 lessons learned are changing our lives and our relationships. Yes, we don’t know all the lessons yet. But let’s snap a panorama of the landscape whizzing by and see what we can begin to discern. … Continue reading
Don the Beachcomber, Trader Vic & Tommy Bahama duke it out! Mai tai tasting is the subject of today’s blog. Join me on an imaginary visit to a tropical island! And along the way, we’ll compete the giants of tiki cocktails … Continue reading
Life after COVID is becoming clearly visible. That is, after humankind, like Thor, defeats the World Serpent of coronavirus, hopefully without suffering Thor’s subsequent fate. As promised in previous blogs, the media abound with good news about the coronavirus. Therefore, … Continue reading
Contrary Paths to a Single Goal… COVID-19 immunity across the US is rapidly evolving. As the previous blog showed, US States have adopted quite different strategies. Some are keeping coronavirus controls tight while vaccinating the population as quickly as they … Continue reading
And the Use and Misuse of Science… COVID-19 masks, good-bye! Life after COVID is calling to all of us! We’re not quite there yet. Puritans and rebels, suggested by this image, are still battling over coronavirus rules. However, rapidly multiplying … Continue reading
COVID-19 vaccine prep is today’s topic. This blog addresses the easy decisions you can make for maximum results and minimum annoyance from your “jab.” (This term used by the Brits is so descriptive!) You may have a few questions that … Continue reading
We’re Not In the Herd Yet… COVID-19 herd immunity delays threaten to frustrate our public efforts to control the coronavirus. The latest science makes our goal look a lot more difficult. Three Paths to COVID-19 Herd Immunity As we discussed … Continue reading