Placebos vs Talismans

Sometimes, semantics are important.

Where do you put the tired?

Everyone who runs a marathon gets tired. It doesn’t matter how fast you can run it, how long you’ve been…

How can you tell if a study is good?

In the years that I wrote Evidence-Based Fitness, one of the most common questions I got from…

The first step to change is not about the change

Please store your heavier items under the seat in front of you.

Poo Part I: How do you know if it’s poo?

If someone put a plate of poo cupcakes in front of you, how would you know it’s poo…

Data never exists in a vacuum

We like to believe that data (whether big or small) holds the answers we are looking for. It’s just as…

The alarming trend of school.

The most often used argument against medicine is that doctors don’t “get enough”. They don’t get enough…

The robots are coming

The AI that is coming will be nothing like the AI that is here. But we have glimpses of what is to come. Algorithms that…