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 […]
Category Archives: Physiology vs. Technology
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 […]
Energy
To Steppen, 10,000 years ago, energy, or his concept of energy, was a Fire. He could feel and see the forces of nature in the Sun, the wind, and storms […]
Climbing Trees
From my childhood, I distinctly remember two particular trees. The first was actually a group of old pine trees, maybe twenty feet tall (they might have been smaller, I think […]
Potty Training
In Steppen’s time, children learned to poop from watching their parents, or others. There were no doors, and children follow their parents everywhere. There was certainly nothing unnatural about it. […]
Global Warming
I started this particular blurb because I thought it might be interesting to show how technology, in the form of industrially related Global Warming, might effect both our physiology, and […]
Sports
I should have gotten out for a ride on Sunday. Instead, I did a few chores and then ended up watching football. Now, it is 16 degrees outside, and looks […]
Stretching, the Truth
Stretching, the Truth I was watching the cats stretch this morning. They are such lovely little beasties. It can be quite an elaborate exercise. First the long back arch, […]
Bicycling
First, a confession: I love bicycling. I have enjoyed it, at various levels of fitness, for over forty years now – and well over 100,000 miles. It is a technology […]
Concrete
We take concrete for granted. It is prevalent, it is everywhere. If you’re driving cross-country, you will notice that as you get near urban areas, the double-lane concrete highway you […]
Paleo-opolis 