- The Board of Tea Experts, established on March 2, 1897, is finally being mothballed.
- Deborah Laufer has filed more than 600 different lawsuits —typically against small hotels — and Laufer accuses them of failing to comply with the federal disabilities law. Will the Supreme Court shut her down?
- Yglesias: Loneliness isn’t aloneness. And contra Nicholas Kristof, it is highly correlated with low incomes.
- Tyler Cowen: ten ideas on reducing the number of single parent families.
Blue Zones: A Spartan Lifestyle That Will Make You Blue
The concept of healthy living goes back to ancient Greece and then to the Romans. Nowadays healthy living often comes off as preaching about how people should live their lives rather than how they choose to live their lives. An interesting saga of improving life and longevity is by National Geographic Fellow Dan Buettner. He began with the study of centenarians, people who reach the age of 100.
Monday Links
- Health gains from key prescription drugs.
- Steve Henke, et. al., skewer a new Royal Society report on Covid-19.
- Health Affairs study: employers lack leverage to negotiate lower prices. Have they never heard of reference pricing?
- CDC: we are losing the battle against obesity. I thought we lost it a long time ago.
- Inequities at the doctors office: is it because the patients don’t speak up for themselves?
Are Humans Becoming More Food Intolerant? Maybe, Maybe Not
A recent advice column in Slate was about a woman who liked to plan dinner parties but her friend had an ever-changing list of dietary requirements. Having to accommodate her friend’s fad diets was killing the fun of throwing parties.