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Well, sort of. Here is an excerpt from a blog post I wrote at the USC Annenberg School’s Reporting On Health website. I will be blogging over there for a couple of months a couple of times a week. The Great Potassium Iodide Panic of 2011 has peaked and begun to ebb. There were no […] I got a chance to interview Jesse Mendoza of Jordan International Aid who is in Japan right now doing relief work. You can listen to the live interview, below. Numbers and reports from the area are changing all the time. Jesse gave me some idea of what it is like there right now in the […] Sentenced to indefinite homelessness It is universally acknowledged that the first wave of homelessness occurred when the mental health system was abolished. Many would argue that a second wave of homelessness occurred when vast amounts of affordable housing were eliminated. I would argue that a third wave of a more desperate, intractable, and frequently violent […] You can read Part I of this series about homelessness and our prison system here. Get on the bus Each year, for 130,000 Californians, the prison door is unlocked one day and the question now becomes – where do you go? And how do you get there? Do you get any money? If so, how […] If you work as a doctor in a clinic for the homeless, you see all kinds of simmering panic. There’s the God, someone’s got to help me panic of the person who lost their house to foreclosure. There’s the fatalistic panic of a street person with a hard, bone-rattling cough who senses, deep inside, that […] So much of science promises a lot…and then never delivers. It’s enough to make you sigh and roll your eyes every time you see a screaming headline about a new type of research. That’s why so many of us don’t really want to dig in and try to understand some of the newer developments in […] |
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