Monday Open Thread; March 12 is World Day Against Cyber Censorship

March 12 is the 71st day of the year, there are 294 days left

Today's date is also Setting Orange, Chaos 70, 3184 YOLD (for you Discordians out there)

Sir Malcolm Campbell at the wheel of the "Bluebird",

World History this day

Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. If you have observed grains of sand pass through an hour glass, you will notice that it is very swift -swifter than one can tell.

Over the years I have become more disillusioned about accepting science as the primary reason to adopt a solution to a problem. Instead of a discipline of discovery and method to identify best practices, products or solutions it has become a tool of marketing to push one product over another or to discredit historical practices.

In November of 2011 I traveled to China, with other pharmacists on a cultural exchange of medical practices. In Xian (location of the terracota warriors) we explored some of the work being done to compare Western treatment methods with TCM (traditional chinese medicine). One of the obstacles to direct comparisons was how medical conditions were defined differently. For example diabetes was not considered a singular condition and monitoring blood sugars was not part of any treatment protocol or diagnostic process.

Interesting new overview of diabetics in Sweden and Finland will be changing the way diabetes is managed in the future.

Victory!