I think this may have something to do with my general failure as a person, but anyway... I was working my way through the July-August Utne Reader, and I have to say that it never fails to make me think, which is, I guess, the point of reading it. I'm not done yet, but I have some thoughts. Really, one thought, two articles. I express ire at the first one here. The first, which is simpler to explain, is about to Matt Sutherland's Spirituality and Health article, "You're Grounded: Connecting with the earth can cure chronic pain - and stop insomnia." I don't generally read Spirituality and Health , as I feel that it is filled with woo, but the Utne is an aggregator, so you get all kinds, which I usually like. However, I am very angry at this article. The general premise is that Clint Ober discovered that we are exposed to electromagnetic fields (EMFs), and that the only appliances that do not create these fields are grounded appliances. He claims th
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso