by Erik Kain on October 14, 2011
Amanda Marcotte is taking the GOOD Magazine health challenge and she, like yours truly, has no patience for faux-naturalistic health tips that aren’t grounded in scientific evidence. Unfortunately, on day eight of the challenge she ran into just such a tip: Cord Jefferson surprised me by writing an anti-soap screed, sincehe recently wrote an evidence-based [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 13, 2011
Okay, walk over here for a second. This is Door Number One. Behind Door Number One I take a few swings at the Dalai Lama (being the gentleman he is, he doesn’t swing back.) The reason I swing at him is some some stuff he says about not spending your whole life working and sacrificing [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 12, 2011
This quotation from the Dalai Lama has been making the rounds. It’s one of those irksome sentiments that sounds really wise and profound and makes all of us sort of cringe in self-examination. Or worse, causes us to look outward at “humanity” and think to ourselves, “Yes, all these people are living for tomorrow. They [...]
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