Health – Steve Larsen

Going off to college is scary. When my oldest granddaughter went from two decades of daily contact with parents, family and friends, 1500 miles away to a new state where she’d be totally on her own, I worried. Making College Friendships I wanted to encourage her to not feel lonely, and to make new friends…

A few weeks ago, over dinner, I listened to a friend share his excitement about moving in with his boyfriend. As we talked about their plans, he also mentioned his partner’s struggles with a father’s persistent lack of acceptance. I was instantly empathetic, unfortunately, it wasn’t my first encounter with this sort of thinking. I’d…

Late last year I had the opportunity to see an early screening of the film, SHOT IN THE ARM. I just learned it is currently streaming for free on PBS.org and the PBS app. Produced and Directed by Academy Award nominee Scott Hamilton Kennedy and Executive produced by the brilliant Neil deGrasse Tyson, this is…

The Netflix documentary Tell Them you Love Me sheds remarkable insight into a world filled with amazing stories of newly found literacy in nonspeaking people. It provides this understanding without preaching or throwing out a lot of facts, but through brilliant storytelling. While not always easy to watch, I found it riveting. Anna Stubblefield, a…

Writing about politics is not something I do, but I do write about science. It appears to me our government and courts would benefit if they’d base their decisions and policies on scientific proof, versus information found on the Internet, chat rooms, and blog posts. Legal decisions and government policy with the underpinnings of actual…

For the past ten years my interest in diminishing the impact of psychics and pseudoscience has grown. I wrote a newsletter about scary psychics earlier this year. Few groups stand up for reason and truth – there should be more. The good ones, like the one mentioned below, needs and deserves our support. The Center…

Recent explorations into ethical questions have led me down a variety of rabbit holes, eventually to the whole psychic phenomenon and people claiming to be mediums and able to predict the future. One fascinating character is Mark Edward. I watched a 90-minute presentation where he explained how he and others in the “business” of psychic…

Recently I went on a 14-day health retreat in California. The following is what that was about, why I went and what I learned. Thinking an additional perspective might be useful, following the report I’ve provided a brief summary of how my thinking about fasting and health has changed since I was much younger. From…

In today’s Arizona Republic newspaper one of our local columnists alluded to a certain political attack on science. Reports that “science got X or Y wrong” on topics from global warming to Covid-19 are frequent, leading me to conclude many people have a deep misunderstanding of what science is, actually. Hopefully, I can shed some…

After retiring, I stopped renewing subscriptions to 5-6 monthly business magazines, daily delivery of the WSJ, NYT and half a dozen trade publications. Electronic versions have not caught on with me, so call me a journalistic dinosaur. I don’t care. I missed BusinessWeek and the WSJ Weekend Edition the most. Then a friend gave me…

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