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Meeting Jane Goodall & The Chimpanzees
After one of the hardest hikes of my life, I stepped into a small clearing and turned to see a full-grown male chimp perched in a tree just above and behind me. He was close enough to attack if he’d wanted to. Thankfully, he didn’t want to…
I grew up reading National Geographic magazine from cover to cover every month. There I learned about diverse cultures, amazing ecosystems, and drank in vivid images of wild animals. It’s also where I, like many of you, first experienced meeting Jane Goodall. The amazing Jane Goodall. It’s one of the things that shaped my attitudes toward health, the environmen...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - August 15, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Environmental Health Top Environmental Health Source Type: blogs
The Window of Opportunity for Teaching Your Kids Great Eating Habits
Dr. Greene’s take on great eating habits…
What does mother goose have to do with getting kids to eat right?
Researcher Konrad Lorentz showed that by replacing a mother goose with something else as the first thing a baby goose encountered, he could alter the behavior of the baby goose to view that thing (even a toy train!!) as ‘mama’.
This phenomenon is referred to as “imprinting,” and it works just as well for “what’s for dinner?” as it does for “who’s mama?”
But there’s a catch – it only works for a short while.
If you want your children t...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - November 20, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Infant Infant & Baby Feeding Infant Feeding Newborn Newborn Development Top Infant Top Infant Nutrition Top Newborn Source Type: blogs
Are Surging State COVID-19 Cases Due to Early Reopening?
Alan Reynolds"How Coronavirus Cases Have Risen Since States Reopened" inThe New York Times July 9 claimed, " Florida and South Carolina were among the first to open up and are now among the states leading the current surge. In contrast, the states that bore the brunt of cases in March and April but were slower to reopen have seen significant decreases in reported cases since. Average daily cases in New York are down 52 percent since it reopened in late May and down 83 percent in Massachusetts " (which reopened May 18).The purpose of this note is to question whether or not it is accurate to simply attribute the " current ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 24, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Alan Turing ' s brilliant essay
In 1950, Alan Turing wrote" Computing Machinery and Intelligence. " This one short paper, exploring what came to be called the Turing test,continues to influence research and thinking across multiple fields.Tyler Cowen and I have co-authored a new paper asking two questions.What does the Turing test really mean? And how many human beings (including Turing) could pass? Our premise is that some aspects of Turing ' s paper have not received sufficient attention:Turing ’s paper is rich and multi-faceted and we are not seeking to overturn all of the extant interpretations. We do wish to suggest that a potent and indeed subver...
Source: The Autism Crisis - July 15, 2009 Category: Child Development Source Type: blogs
The Last Federal “Stimulus” Didn’t Stimulate
Alan ReynoldsIn a recent piece at AIER, I argue that the last stimulus didn’t stimulate:Mailing $1,200 checks to 159 million people, adding $600 to weekly unemployment benefits and rationing forgivable 1% loans for five years did, of course, raise personal income. Relatively small tax credits lifted after ‐tax (disposable) income slightly more. “Disposable personal income increased $1.53 trillion, or42.1 percent, in the second quarter, ” reports the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Yet contrary to stimulus promises, consumer demand fell even more than income increased: ‘Personal outlays decreased $1.57 t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 13, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
5 takeaways for returning to school
School districts in the United States are in a period of profound uncertainty, which will likely persist throughout the 2020–2021 school year. Many agree that remote teaching in spring 2020 was piecemeal and sub-optimal. Now, despite a stated universal commitment to full-time, in-person, high-caliber education, many states have rising rates of COVID-19, and teachers and parents share deep health concerns. Already we have witnessed a rapid and seismic transition from the beginning of this summer — in June, many schools planned to open full-time for in-person learning — to near-universal adoption of hybrid or remote te...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alan Geller, MPH, RN Tags: Adolescent health Children's Health Coronavirus and COVID-19 Parenting Source Type: blogs
Will Congress Repeat the Worst Blunder of the First “Stimulus” Bill?
Alan ReynoldsA bipartisan Congressional group is eager borrow and spend another $900 billion on a new COVID-19 bill. Yet they appear determined to repeat the most wastefulpolitical stunt of the last “stimulus bill.”On December 17,The Wall Street Journal reported that “the package includes another round of direct payments to households,” which was recently added back into the mix after “The Trump administration [via Treasury Secretary Mnuchin] …proposed sending $600 checks. ”Borrowing money to send everyone a little check may sound clever to myopic politicians. But it is morally indefensible because ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 17, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
#Healthin2Point00, Episode 201 | European Funding Deals – complete with accents!
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we’re back from our 200th episode celebration! In Episode 201, we have an all-European funding deals episode for you, and I even attempt to answer every story in an accent relevant to the company. First, French insurance company Alan raises €185 million. Scottish company Current Health raises $43 million in a Series B for remote patient monitoring. Thankfully we have an English company in the mix, Proximie raises $38 million, bringing their total to $48 million – they do AR for the OR. Kry, a Swedish telehealth company with 3 million visits, raises $316 million bringing their to...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Alan Caresyntax Current Health KRY Proximie Source Type: blogs
The Mystifying Arithmetic of Year ‐to‐Year Inflation Estimates
Alan ReynoldsAWall Street Journal editorial "The Fed ' s Big Inflation Miss" hinges on a graph showing the year-to-year percentage increase in the consumer price index (CPI) " increased at an annual 5.4% rate in June, after rising 5% at an annual rate in May. The Fed is way behind the price curve. Price increases would have to decline precipitously in the next six months to get close to the Fed ' s median June forecast of 3.4% for 2021. " By the measure cited, however, the average of the past six monthly year-to-year changes was 3.35%.One source of this and other misunderstandings comes from the habitual media use of year-...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 29, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Blaming U.S. Passenger Vehicles for Climate Change Is Ignorant but Lucrative
Alan ReynoldsA CNN report says, “Making American cars greener is a key component of Biden’s economic and climate agendas… But the transition will be difficult;passenger vehicles contribute 29% of total US greenhouse gas emissions, and EVs and plug ‐in hybrids combined only account for around 2% of the US auto sales, according to a UAW analysis.”Similar claims – that “passenger vehicles contribute 29% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions” – have been echoed repeatedly for a decade but are totally false. Theentire transportation sector accounts for 29% of U.S. greenhouse gases, according to the Ener...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 10, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Has Recent Inflation Been Higher or Lower?
Alan ReynoldsA front ‐page headline screams “Inflation Is Back at Highest in Over a Decade.” That sounds as if inflation recently came back up to a record peak after a nice period of quiescence. Actually, inflation was twice as high from March to June as it has been since.The lower numbers of the past three months are still bad enough, yet the difference between higher and lower numbers seems worth mentioning. Change seems to mystify and elude TV and newspaper reporters because they discount recent news and keep extolling “The Mystifying Arithmetic of Year ‐to‐Year Inflation Estimates. ”Earlier th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
The Perennial Year ‐to‐Year Oil Price Confusion
Alan Reynolds“U.S. Inflation Hit 31‐Year High in October as Consumer Prices Jump 6.2%” That should make you wonder: What happened in 1990 to make that October ’s year‐to‐year CPI inflation rate of 6.4% so much like October 2021’s 6.2%?The first graph compares the 1990 –91 year‐to‐year percentage change in the oil price (79.3% in October) to the tightly linked year‐to‐year percentage change in the CPI. The price of West Texas crude oil rose from $16.70 a barrel in June to $36.04 in October and the year‐to‐year CPI marched up in l ock step to 6.4%. Then the year‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 11, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Doubling of the Oil Price Is Always “Transitory”
Alan ReynoldsThis graph compares the year ‐to‐year percentage change in headline inflation (the blue line) with the monthly percentage change in the consumer price index (CPI) excluding energy (the red bars). Because the blue line has exceeded 5% since June and exceeded 6% in October, many are understandably convinced that inflati on was lower in the spring and has accelerated since then. As I recently demonstrated, however, large year‐to‐year percentage changes in the overall CPI have always been dominated byhuge changes (both up and down) in the world price of crude oil. One way to partly correct ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Unlike Next Month, the November CPI Was Dominated by Oil
Alan ReynoldsUSA Today headline says, “Inflation rate surges as CPI data shows prices rose 6.8% in November, the fastest spike since 1982. ”That 6.8% figure does not describe what happened this November at all. It measures what happened at some points in time between the brutal pandemic of 2020 (when U.S. deaths from COVID-19 rose from 908 on November 1 to 2,389 by November 30) and the much safer and stronger global economy of November 2021.To find a record “spike” in November, we must look at monthly data, not 12‐month changes. The graph highlights monthly changes in three categories:Energy, which has rel...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 10, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
The Curious Tale of PPI Trade Service Inflation
Alan ReynoldsAnother Wall Street Journal editorial once again confuses a rising year‐to‐year change in a price index with a monthly inflation rate for November. A chart supposedly “shows how wholesale price have risen every month but one this year on an annual basis.” This factoid is said to be “a monumental rebuke” to the Fe d, which (because of that “annual basis” trickery) is effectively blamed for both falling prices during COVID waves as well as rising prices during reopenings.The charted year ‐to‐year changes in the PPI donotshow that producer prices “have risen every month,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
