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This is Your Brain. Your Brain Affected by Climate Change.

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I have always loved temperatures that breached the lower end of what most would consider comfortable.  It’s one of the reasons why living in Cambridge (MA) and Ann Arbor (MI) was a pleasure for me.    And, maybe this would be a great time to remind you (in case you forgot) that I don’t own a winter coat.  Oh, wait.  I don’t own any coats.   I simply don’t wear any.  Because it’s really never been too cold to need such an outfit.

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Flesh Eating Bacteria Coming to You Soon?

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Global Warming. Wait- don’t run away. This is a whole new take on the problem.

No, I am not going to say (as many an idiotic politician declares) that it is a hoax. Yes, the rise in sea level is real. Ask anyone who lives in Norfolk or the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Ocean front property is often one’s front door nowadays.

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Feed the World

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I am sure, by now, you recognize that my research and business interests cross a variety of disciplines.  So, my casual reading in any given day can include the following journals:  Microbe, Journal of Bacteriology, Water Reuse, Nephrology News, JASN, JAMA, Harvard Business Review, Strategy+… you get the idea.

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Just the facts, ma’am…

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As I am sure you know, I am a life-long technologist.  OK.  Maybe only since I was six- but that’s pretty much life-long.  And, I’ve been trained in the scientific method.   Which means one must develop a hypothesis- and try to prove it wrong.  If one can’t, it provides validity to the scenario one considered.

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This is just one leg of the stool

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As I’ve written before (here is but one example), I’ve been concerned that we have been rebuilding communities along the Mississippi for a long time.  Because the river floods its banks, destroying those communities along the shoreline.  We should consider rebuilding those cities and towns at higher elevations.

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R-I-S-K (don’t shudder- react!)

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Most of you know I live in Metropolitan DC.  So, whatever happens in/to/from the Federal government is LOCAL.  Like the shutdown- that cost the DC area more than $ 220 million each and every day in business.  Since there are some 5 million folks living in the Metropolitan area, that’s $ 50 not spent by every man, woman, and child.  OK, that doesn’t sound too bad.  But, there are about 225,000 businesses in the area.  Which means the average business took a hit $ 1000 a day. That is a significant number if you are a small business- even if you are a large one.

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