Random Morning Post

I found a few interesting articles in the paper recently. Some of them I've clipped, with the intent to mail to someone, but I doubt I'll get around to it. I have a mental note to send others to people via email, but I think the simpler plan is to put them here .............

With the first week of baseball already here, there was a cool article about computer simulation of baseball games to address questions such as: is a sacrifice bunt worth it? is it better to steal second or stay at first? etc. In cases like these, I often wonder "was that play really necessary?" and without spoiling it, all I'll say is that the bottom line answer from the article was both interesting and satisfying.

Did anyone hear about the study that determined a cause for why so many inner-city kids have asthma? Cockroach allergies! Turns out there's a lot of cockroach parts in all that dust. It's a fascinating article.

I love Jane Brody's weekly Personal Health column. This week she talked about tips for how to stay healthy while flying. A couple of weeks ago she wrote about health risks related to taking too much Vitamin E.

And saving perhaps the best for last, a there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I piece about a woman who hates her i-Phone. Kids, I'm not afraid of technology, but too much of a good thing might be ....... too much of a good thing. After reading this I now have yet another reason to keep my cheap little Nokia phone and our T-Mobile plan. (I can hear the groans already!)