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By Carolyn Raffensperger I’ve just discovered a secret about food and sustainable diets. I tasted a hint of this secret when I went to visit my mother on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the shores of Lake Superior, that mysterious, cold, dark sea, with its edge of northern woods and rock. Friends brought thimbleberry jam [...] By Nancy Myers There is an ecology of roadsides. Right now it’s lovely in southwest Michigan. Cutleaf toothwort, a small white ephemeral, spills out from the woods into the ditches. The grass is fresh. The poison ivy hasn’t shown up yet. Garlic mustard is just starting to raise its bushy, invasive heads. Deer graze the ditches [...] By Ted Schettler MD MPH What is health? How do we measure it? What determines it? A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute takes a turn at answering these questions. “County Health Rankings: Mobilizing action toward community health” combines weighted measures of health outcomes and health [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger Perhaps the old reductionistic, objective science is a form of autism. This is the science that promotes dissecting frogs, but not loving them enough to work to protect them. It is the science that does risk assessment on toxic chemicals and says that some childhood cancers are acceptable. It is science [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger According to an old story told by Sun Tsu at the beginning of The Art of War, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which family member was the most skilled at medicine. The famous physician, replied, “My eldest brother is the most skilled [...] |
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