These are strange times, a simple statement most folks would agree with. Our coastlines creep inward, potentially displacing millions, as climate change alters the planet’s surface. Human interaction is a dwindling commodity. Americans are on their phones 24 hours a day, plugged into the ...

In my previous article, two weeks ago, I wrote about the benefits of resistance training (lifting weights, for example). I wrote that resistance training is associated with a 21% lower risk of all-cause mortality, a lower incidence of heart disease and hypertension, and better physical ...

MARQUETTE — Mental health problems in a male-dominated industry – construction – are often overlooked, and its workers have disproportionately high suicide rates, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics The agency says the suicide rate among construction workers is four times ...

At the gym, I see people pulling and pushing. They are lifting dumbbells, barbells, and kettlebells. They do push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups. I look at them with admiration as they look the part, as if they came out of Men’s Health magazine, or have just left the set of an action ...

Our healthcare system is in crisis mode. Millions of Americans go through their daily lives without any form of healthcare insurance. Physicians are calling for strikes and pushing to unionize, proposals once considered heretical. Private, for-profit, privately held insurance companies profit ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This material was originally published in The Mining Journal on February 14, 2017. Necessity is the mother of frugality: without the means to live large, one has to live on less, and to own little. But for many, I have noticed, frugality has become a fashionable choice: Some ...