by Ann Beach | Oct 23, 2025 | Medicine
Did you enjoy learning about the Gila monster last week? I’m still in a Halloween mood. Let’s talk about spiders. First, I must confess I love spiders. They are such wonderful engineers. Did you know that, as they are spinning their web threads, they can modify the...
by Ann Beach | Oct 16, 2025 | Medicine
Halloween is coming! Let’s talk about monsters. Everyone’s heard about the amazing new GLP-1 weight loss drugs Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and others. But did you know there’s a monster involved? Before we go further, a little refresher is needed. These drugs were...
by Ann Beach | Oct 2, 2025 | Medicine
It’s football season, and in the South, there is no other topic this time of year! American gridiron football evolved from soccer and rugby and was first played in 1869, in a game between Princeton and Rutgers. By the 1890s it had become a game we would easily...
by Ann Beach | Sep 17, 2025 | Medicine
Graham crackers in S’mores. Graham crackers and peanut butter, the perfect after-school snack. Teddy Grahams for toddlers. What could be more wholesome? Their origin was quite different from their current use. Let me tell you more. Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) is...
by Ann Beach | Aug 26, 2025 | Medicine
In one of the first great battles of the Civil War, Grant’s Union Army was pitted against Johnston’s and Buell’s Confederate forces at Shiloh, in Tennessee. A now bucolic place in Tennessee, Shiloh is near the southern Tennessee border with Mississippi and Alabama, on...
