Adios Fidel

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/well/move/born-to-move.html?_r=0
This is an article from the NYT about an article in the American Journal of Human Biology summarizing a study done at Yale and the U of Arizona about the Hazda, a hunter-gatherer people. 46 people from this tribe agreed to wear a chest monitor. One conclusion from the study is that we were "born to move" not stare at or swipe screens.




http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/opinion/sunday/octopuses-and-the-puzzle-of-aging.html?_r=0
This is a column in the Sunday Review section of the NYT about our lifespan. The writer/researcher uses the example of octopi, which have a lifespan of only two years. Nautiluses who are also cephalopods. live for 20 years. Why is this?

Maybe Snow Flurries

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/climate-change-in-trumps-age-of-ignorance.html?_r=0 An article in the NYT  by Robert Proctor of Stanford about the election of a president with no interest in the growth of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.