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Last Christmas, my friend and I fled the house on Christmas day. He drove into our favorite supermarket’s parking lot. It was rather alarmingly full; the supermarket was open. On the 25th of December! (This,Meer / More

Last year, I got a giant pill of inspiration. Afterwards, I was sky-high on hope and ideas. You too can get one of those pills, on April 8th. All you have to do is getMeer / More

Former vice-president of the US Dick Cheney got a new heart. I wouldn’t even have known this if it weren’t for Facebook. Really amazing how social media improve our lives (…I need an ironic smileyMeer / More

Between 1968 and 1972, David Rosenhan, professor in psychiatry at Stanford University, conducted an experiment. Rosenhan wondered if there was really such a thing as a state of sanity and one of insanity, and ifMeer / More

A couple of years ago, I decided I wasn’t happy with the way my diabetes was treated. I had to eat set amounts of food at set times. It made me feel very restricted, whichMeer / More

When I feel really miserable – like when someone I loved just died, or when my bike has been stolen for the third time in one week – I lay myself down on the floorMeer / More

If it’s true that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, apple consumption worldwide must have taken a nosedive. Healthcare is booming business and doctors certainly have not disappeared. People used to put theirMeer / More

I’m not sure about absolute truths, but there are three things I know for sure. First, it’s January (because we made it so) and second, obesity is spreading, because, well, we made it so. AndMeer / More

Good health: we all care about it in different ways. Whether you go to a medicine man or a GP when you fall ill, whether you pray, hallucinate with the help of interesting toadstools, orMeer / More

A long time ago, I invented a ship called the Wildly Shameless together with someone I never met. We meant to write a blog about it, with stories about our adventures. As these things go,Meer / More