What Serial Killers and Golfers may Have in Common
In measuring environmental impacts on health, we sometimes can confuse morality and science. About ten years ago, Jessica Wolpaw Reyes, an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Amherst College, MA, wrote an article about the effects of lead exposure on population health. Higher amounts of lead in the water supply unfolded a series of […]
Why buying a Swiss Chalet might be a bad idea!
Looking back in time brings back mixed feelings: Should we have bought that house? Sold the piano nobody played? What about the lives of our great-great grandparents devoid of modern luxuries? We can treasure moments in time, balance the baggage of our past against our dreams for the future, but we cannot escape time itself. […]