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  • Whether you use the saltshaker or not, you're better off switching out the contents. I use a mix of monosodium glutamate, aka MSG, & potassium chloride, a common salt substitute.

    2026-06-01
  • This is an up-to-date version of an explanation we handed out with blood panel results when we had a blood draw station at the clinic.

    2026-05-21
  • Commercials and the media promote the idea that we are happiest when we have the trappings of wealth. Then we can do whatever we want. We have freedom.

    2026-05-19
  • In the late 1970s, I was sitting in a charting station at Brookfield Hospital in Wisconsin. Next to me a social worker wrote in her records.

    2026-05-10
  • In a healthy relationship, people collaborate. They share goals, ideas, and effort. If Jack heads up the hill to fetch a pail of water, Jill might say, "You know, we…

    2026-05-01
  • This American Life producer Chana Joffe-Walt calls reporter Maram Hamaid in Gaza frequently. Often the calls are interrupted by her friend's daughter, Banias, an almost-adult in an eight-year-old form.

    2026-04-05