Kaizen Curmudgeon 2013 Archive

“Hey, Curmudge, we’re at the end of another calendar year.  Do you think that the information we presented in our blog this year did some good?”

“Not for the 7.2 billion people on this earth who didn’t read it, Julie.  Of course, each person saved about five minutes per posting by not reading each of the 40 postings.  Assuming each person‘s time is worth $0.10 per minute, on a world-wide scale, we saved $144 billion by writing a blog that few people read.”

“I think your numbers are right, Curmudge, but your logic is goofy.  Maybe there’s a job waiting for you in Washington.  But what about those people who did read our blog?”

“There is a high probability that they gained from each posting something that they might not have otherwise learned.  It was free from the Internet and cost a few pennies of their time.  Such a deal!  So here’s what we wrote about in 2013.”

2013 Archive—Table of Contents

Title (Subject)	Date Posted
Risks and Fears—Introduction	1/03/13
Risks and Fears—Examples	1/13/13
Risks and Fears 3 (The Old Risks and Benefits File)	1/20/13
Bloggers—Affiliated or Independent	1/27/13
The Ordeal 1 (Chemotherapy)	2/04/13
The Ordeal 2	2/10/13
The Ordeal 3—Summary	2/16/13
Unconventional Wisdom 1 (Heath Effects of Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation)	2/28/13
Unconventional Wisdom 2—Mice in the Laboratory	3/07/13
Unconventional Wisdom 3—Epidemiology	3/20/13
Unconventional Wisdom 4—Radiation Background	4/01/13
Unconventional Wisdom 5—How much?  How does it work?	4/15/13
Unconventional Wisdom 6—Policy Issues	4/24/13
Happy Sixth Birthday	5/13/13
Kaizen Curmudgeon for Seniors (Introduction and Contents of Interest From Earlier Postings)	5/27/13
A Look Ahead on Kaizen Curmudgeon (An Introduction to Global Warming)	6/04/13
Curmudgeon and Jaded Julie Read the Newspaper	6/17/13
Curmudge and Jaded Julie Talk About Cause and Effect	6/26/13
Curmudge and Jaded Julie Talk About Models and Vested Interest	7/02/13
Peer-Reviewed Publications	7/11/13
600 Years Ago (An Allegory on Global Warming)	7/15/13
Climate Science 1 (Anthropogenic Global Warming)	7/23/13
Climate Science 2	7/30/13
Climate Science 3	8/06/13
Climate Science 4	8/14/13
Climate Science 5	8/21/13
The Almost-Invisible Emotion (Mourning Seven Months Later, written August 11, 2011)	9/03/13
Mourning—Almost Three Years Later: Absence	9/11/13
Companion Qualities	9/20/13
Alternative Medicine 1—Introduction	9/27/13
Alternative Medicine 2—Words of Wisdom and Caution	10/04/13
Alternative Medicine 3—Nutrition	10/14/13
Alternative Medicine 4—Illness and Risk	10/21/13
Alternative Medicine 5—It’s Cancer!  Now What?	10/31/13
Alternative Medicine 6—Alt. Med. 101	11/08/13
Alternative Medicine 7—Mind-Body Medicine	11/20/13
Alternative Medicine 8—Energy and Hands-on Therapies	12/04/13
Your Plastic Brain—The Basics	12/11/13
Holiday Greeting--2013	12/18/13

“Do you suppose, Curmudge, that some of our readers might never have used the Blog Index to access an earlier posting?” 

“If that’s the case, Julie, we’d better provide some help, as follows:  Links to all postings are available via the Blog Index in the right margin of each posting.  But to use it one has to know when the subject of interest was in a posting.  In the Blog Index one clicks on the year and then the month of posting.  Titles of each of that month’s postings appear, and they are links to the posting with that title.  The problem is that one must know the year and month.  What is needed is a table of contents in which one can browse.  That’s what we have created (above) in our current end-of-the-year posting—a table of contents for the 2013 postings.  After one finds a subject of interest, he/she goes to the Blog Archive in the right margin of any posting and clicks on year, month, and title (link).”

“That ought to do it, Old Guy.  Happy New Year.”

“Frohe neues Jahr, Young Lady.”

Link to posting from blog archives: Primary care in 1940 (Doc on call 24/7.)—8/20/09 http://kaizencurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/08/primary-care-in-1940.html