Author Archives: Stephen Hoy
Can’t Get Comfortable In Your Chair? Here’s What You Can Do
September 24, 20184:56 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition – NPR.org Michaeleen Doucleff About a hundred years ago, something devious started happening in our homes and offices, in our cars […]
PANGAEA DISRUPTED
Just over one hundred years ago, a German meteorologist named Alfred Wegener presented a radical new concept to Europe’s leading geologists. He declared that ALL of the continents had, at […]
Vulnus
VULNUS A New Concept of Continental Evolution The Short, Conversational, Version It is only during the last few hundred years that Mankind has devised or discovered the necessary tools to […]
Gondwana
Gondwana; Antarctica and Australia in particular. These are the current textbook and Internet depictions of the Pangaea, Gondwana connection – and of their “dis-connection” as the various tectonic plates […]
Cannabis
Oddly, here is the rare case where decades of marketing have been actively directed at discouraging the use of a helpful common herb. An herb that has been utilized by […]
The Paleo Diet Paradox
Or If everybody ate mostly meat, why didn’t everybody have Scurvy? I repeatedly make reference to the idea that, for at least the last fifty thousand years or so (the […]
The American Diet Delimma
Or Why are you calling my sandwich a dessert? Our American diet has deep roots in beef and wheat, but I am going to address just the wheat in […]
Minerals and the Human Diet
Our Earth, and even the entire known universe, is constructed of only about one hundred different types of atomic structures. Each arraignment is unique, and might be expressed as a […]
On The Nature of Things, and 52015
The word epicurean has come down to us through history, as person who has a love of food. The real person, Epicurus, lived about 2,500 years ago in ancient Greece. […]