Saturday, December 02, 2017

Saturday Stories: Professor Piffle, Opioids, and Weight Lifting

By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brock A. Taylor [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Ira Wells, in The Walrus, with a story more for we Canadians on Jordan Peterson, the Professor of Piffle.

Admiral James Winnefeld, in The Atlantic, on how no family is safe from the opioid epidemic.

Alex Hutchinson, with his new gig in Outside, on how if you want to delay death, you should probably be lifting weights.

[And thanks to the great generosity of friends, family, and readers, this year's Movember fundraising amounted to $4,553. If you'd like to watch my kids shave off my moustache, here's that video]