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New Year's resolution: get to know Chikungunya.

Happy New Year to all of our NEHA family and friends! It is the start of a new year and hopefully a short winter. I hope you had a safe and happy holiday season with family and friends. Winter makes us think of snow skiing, sledding, and ice skating, but it also makes us yearn for spring and warm weather. Winter seems to last forever when you wish for sunshine and warm breezes. Many of you will...

Everything is Knowable – How to Get to Know

Fitch showed that not every true proposition can be known in due time; in other words, that not every proposition is knowable. Moore showed that certain propositions cannot be consistently believed. A more recent dynamic phrasing of Moore-sentences is that not all propositions are known after their announcement, i.e., not every proposition is successful. Fitch’s and Moore’s results are related,...

How We Know Our Senses

I propose a new criterion by which, I hold, subjects recognize and distinguish their sensory modalities. I argue that, rather than appealing to one of the standard criteria (sense organ, proximal stimulus, phenomenal character, or representational content (Grice 1962, Macpherson 2011a)) or to O’Dea’s (2011) proprioceptive content, we need to introduce the criterion of location in the functional...

Get excess salt out of our diet.

Why do our kidneys get old?

The majority of the human population shows a decline in renal clearance with age and a loss of renal physiologic reserve. Kidneys are increasingly less able to deal with stressful challenges such as a salt or acid load. It is not clear what underlies this aging-related change and whether it is inevitable or can be modified in such a way as to preserve renal function throughout the life span. Th...