Every so often, I read something that makes me all kinds of excited. Today, I learned of chimpanzees using a spear to hunt. It seems this group of chimps, specifically, the younger females, cleared a branch of leaves, fashioned the end to a point, and hunted some little lemur type creatures by spearing them on the stick. This is the first time non-

This article in Health Affairs, estimates that national spending on health care will grow in the next 10 years to a level for which it will account for 20 cents of every $1 spent. If you make $60,000, then you will spend $12,000 on healthcare. I spent less than $100 on health care in 2006. I lived. Perhaps my knowledge of Physical Therapy has somet

In my Shared Items list you will find a blog entry, "Chiropractors Named in Jim Black Case." This article outlines the details of the case. Here is the deal: Three chiros payed $$ to a legislator in NC for the passage of 3 initiatives. One of the three passed, to allow lower co-pays for chiropractic services. It is now law. The legislator is in big

Here is an interesting situation. The Japanese whaling ship, Nisshin Maru, located just off the coast of Antartcica has a fire on board. The ship is disabled and carrying a lot of fuel. They fire is continuing to burn, and could ultimately purge its fuel oil out into the pristine arctic sea, the breeding ground for whales and over 100,000 penguins.

There were travel issues yesterday. I never thought I'd get stuck in Augusta due to snow. Leave it to their airlines. They were even nice enough to offer me a re-scheduled flight taking off 180 miles from my home, which subsequently was cancelled when Boston-Logan shut down. Oh well, who has plans anyway?

I work hard to make a blog entry just about every day. About half of what I write gets posted to the Metro Spirit Blog. Please make sure you link there for updates as well. For convenience, I placed a widget on this page's sidebar to show recent posts in the Metro Spirit Blog, so you can check there as well. Remember, if you don't use a news collec

I am a big fan of the Back to the Future movie series, having seen the first one in a theater on opening night. One of my favorite scenes in when Doc comes back to get Marty at the end of the first movie and goes rummaging for trash to put into his "Mr Fusion" appliance. This trash into energy thing always seemed to me like a cool idea. It's here.

Last year, a Whippet named Vivi, got loose and ran away after the Westminster Dog Show while getting ready to board a plane at Kennedy Airport. She had won an Award of Merit at the show. She, presumably, was in desperation mode trying to avoid the plane flight home as these can be very stressful to dogs. She succeeded, but in the process was lost.

The Purpose: Astute readers will notice, the Tag Line for NPA Think Tank has changed. I decided to change this in order to truly reflect my purpose in writing. I hope you enjoy! And...The Load: The BackTpack. The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) sent a press release telling all about their endorsement of this oddly designed and named ba