Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

Like a broken record, I continue to post on CTE and its prevalence in former NFL players. Now, UCLA researchers, several of whom are former colleagues and co-authors of mine (Drs. Barrio and Keppe) in research, tackle the problem. Check out this (http://www.espn.go.com/pdf/2013/0122/espn_otl_CTELiving.pdf) pilot study. I look forward to seeing what the impact of it is going forward.

Jared Diamond strikes again

This time, he compares and contrasts primitive hunter-gatherer and modern societies' child-rearing practices in his forthcoming book, The World Until Yesterday, an excerpt of which can be found here. The excerpt is definitely worth a read, and the book is next on my list.