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Food for the Soul wk5— Love
“Fall in Love” with Flying Lotus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KEpb4UaAr8 The boldest, most precarious statement ever made comes through the three words, “I love you.” Yet somehow it’s made and...
View ArticleCI Blog #2—Health Care: Genomic Medicine
The genomics revolution in science has exploded and driven research exponentially since the Human Genome Project launched back in 1990, and especially since its completion in 2003. The last decade has...
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Food for the Soul wk7—Old Gold
Well, I hope you all enjoyed our brief hiatus, both from school and from blogging. I know I had a pleasant, relaxing slice of time that helped me catch up on myself and some other people. With the end...
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Food for the Soul wk8—Break Out The Doors
When one samples Gruyère cheese, a variety of things may run through her or his mind. One might muse, as Wikipedia so refinedly did, “Gruyère is sweet but slightly salty, with a flavor that varies...
View ArticleCI Blog #3—Health Care: Costs
Health care isn’t free. It isn’t cheap either. Just considering the salaries of the hundreds, possibly thousands, of employees of a hospital or hospital system you can see that things add up pretty...
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Food for the Soul wk9—American Chi-z
Isn’t it crazy that when you fill out an address you have to put a place like ‘State College’ or even ‘University Park’ in the spot for city? Don’t get me wrong, my hometown makes this place seem like...
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Food for the Soul wk10— A World of Words, A World of Cheese
Over the course of these blogs, I have thus far focused predominantly on cheeses with European roots. Now, of course, many types of cheese are produced in a variety of countries and regions outside of...
View ArticleCI Blog #4—Health Care: Reform
If you read my previous Civic Issue blog, you will have a fair idea of the economic state that America’s health care system is stuck in. Or if you’ve ever dealt with being uninsured or faced egregious...
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Food for the Soul wk11— Cheesy Endings
Well, the title speaks for itself. But it still can’t quite speak for Morbier cheese. This French cheese hails from the small village of Morbier, after which it is named, in Franche-Comté near the...
View ArticleCI Blog #5—Health Care: Influence from a Social Perspective
How would you define “disease”? What makes something a disease? We all have pretty clear ideas of things that we think are diseases—and they are—but within a sociohistorical context. Take for example...
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