Signs of Health!

Since I’m riding the train on a daily basis, I’ve taken subscriptions to New Scientist and National Geographic. I was reading New Scientist today… and I am so proud of Europeans. Really!

With a title of “Europe’s Health Gap”, the article  lamented the fact that psychiatric illnesses are now the biggest source of ill health in Europe.

They say this like it’s a bad thing.

But I say that when depression, anxiety, insomnia (!) and seasonal affective disorder are your worst problems (instead of things like malaria, starvation, TB, etc…), you’re pretty darn healthy. Do you think that someone who is affected by something like heart disease or yellow fever doesn’t have a bit of depression to deal with? But it doesn’t count, because the physical ailment trumps the mental one.

I don’t often like the political bent of New Scientist, but they sure have some interesting articles.

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So, I’m thinking of my brother Johnny this morning. No, not because he’s psycho, though he may well be (ha ha), but because I had to break out my calculator to teach physics. I still have my calculator from senior year high school that he got me. It graphs, and I used it in my first calculus class. In 1987. It still is a fantastic calculator. It’s no Bomar Brain, but it rocks J.

Thanks, Johnny!

Off to grade labs!

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