A wry coda to an essaylet from my colleague Eric: "So I'm going to be thinking about these concepts. Figure out where I want to be getting results, and therefore what I should be paying …

My two most recent MC Masala columns are on food/body topics. On modeling classes and beginning to exercise:If they let me in, they must have let anyone in; I was like a sparrow taking swimming …

I just explained to a new colleague, with reference to "Oregon Trail", that if his workload goes past steady into strenuous or grueling, he should let me know so I can bear some of it. …

Faceless corporations and their renovation/building! Crepe o Chocolat, a fantastic bistro in downtown SF, is hurting for no good reason! The crepes are so good, and Sylvie is one of the acquaintances I miss from …

Caution: may be boring. This really serves as a skeleton for my future recollections, but it's better than the nothing that I invariably posted after past trips. I took Thursday the 8th off from work …

Thanks especially to Avedon Carol and her partner Rob for putting us up in London-town. After sleep, and an all-day Columbia class tomorrow, more fun details.

I'm working on columnness right now so that I won't have to send one in while Leonard and I are away. My most recent published MC Masala: on the history of medicine and perspective. There …

Freaking prejudice! Freaking lack of metacognition! Aaargh! If our assumptions blind us to what's really going on, how can we make sure we're acting ethically? One example: in sex, in psychology experiments, in drug use, …

"What about taking Communion moves you so much?" In one gesture it sort of sums up the craziness and beauty of human life, which is that you are a soul in a piece of meat, …

I'm reading Roy Porter's book The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity for my class on emerging technologies. My group is studying the introduction of digital patient records, so I'm reading the …