Eliminate Lead Poisoning Risk

Headline in USA Today: New lead poisoning limits put 365,000 at risk. My question is: If you can put people at risk by changing the guidelines in one direction, can you not reduce the risk by changing it in the other? If the CDC declares that any amount of lead is safe, does that make it so?

Anti-Obesity Drug: Attacking The Wrong End

The FDA is closer to approving the anti obesity drug,Lorqess. The drug works by suppressing the appetite. My question is: Do people over eat because they are hungry or necause they love food and the associated dopamine rush?

Facebook Relationships Too Easy??

Long, long ago, somehow you became aware of a friend's birthday.  By some process, you made the effort to "remember" this birthday and you made the effort to send the person a card, or wish them a happy birthday.

In the Facebook age, I post my birthday in my profile.  My friends have an app that sends me a "happy birthday" message when my birthday comes up.  I haven't looked, but there's probably an app that will allow me to respond "thank you" to all of my automated birthday wishes.

If there is no effort involved in a relationship, how much value is there in that relationship?  Have we devolved into relationships between apps, instead of meaningful relationships between people?