Joe Duck - Travel and Technology

Like much of the West Coast I’m waiting for tonight’s results on American Idol, but most of America ALREADY KNOWS the winner!    I’m not sure who will win – the incredible Jessica Sanchez with unbelievable vocal talent or the cute and clever Phillip Phillips who seems to be getting by more on his lo

I’m bumping up this old post about the value of life in dollars because it’s a VERY interesting topic, and I’ll try to update this with more information eventually since there must be new studies.   WHAT ARE YOU WORTH? Most importantly I want to stress how important it is that we DO in fact [...]

I’m in the process of working with the 2010 Census Data, trying to find ways to bring that amazing content into our Online Highways Travel site at OHWY.com. Below is the state profile which should appear in an iframe but can’t because WordPress is removing it.  That can be fixed via a plugin but I [

In addition to our own Retirement blog at Retire USA, here’s a list of some other retirement oriented blogs you can find online: My Retirement Blog http://www.myretirementblog.com/ Boomers Retirement http://boomersretirement.blogspot.com/ Early Retirement Extreme http://earlyretirementextreme.com/ E

Retire USA is growing as a helpful source of retirement information for the USA.    As always the challenges of creating and maintaining a large website were underestimated, but I think the final product is starting to come together nicely thanks to excellent city profiles on over 200 US cities, som

A new study of ankle bracing suggests that you probably should be wearing one during active  sports like basketball or tennis even if you have NOT had an ankle injury:  www.uwhealth.org/news/wisconsin-study-shows-fewer-injuries-among-athletes-with-ankle-braces/31794 The surprise finding was that the

Don’t miss today’s Google Doodle featuring an awesome animation inspired by the work of Eadweard J. Muybridge, a photographer whose innovative work was some of the earliest in the transition to modern day filmmaking.   Muybridge was hired by California industrialist Leland Stanford to settle a bet a

It’s always frustrating to make a case that you are thinking clearly where others are not, but I do think it’s reasonable to suggest that most political arguments are NOT valid because they fail the test above.  Good answers come from taking good data and applying  reasonable thinking to that data.

A new study from Harvard links red meat consumption to health problems and higher mortality.  Although the negative health stuff has been known for some time, this study is more authoritative in terms of large sample and long study period.  Also it seems to quantify things in such a way that we can