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Series 20: Below Sea Level and Above Reason
Join me as thousands of physician assistants and PA students descend upon New Orleans for AAPA 2026—a conference where medicine, music, professional ambition, and questionable decision-making collide. Continue …
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Series 20: Marching Bands & Beignets
New Orleans, or Nahorlens (one syllable), as the in-the-know say, is a city of roughly 370,000 people, or is about the size of Cleveland. Continue …
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Welcome to 2026 … I Guess …
Welcome to 2026. God help us all. Continue …
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Series 19 – A New Academic Year Dawns
Sadly, we part ways here for 2025. No travel is planned since I’ll be in back in school. Continue …
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Series 19 – Exploring the Blue Lagoon, Iceland’s Geothermal Wonderland
How the Blue Lagoon came to be. Continue …
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Series 19 – Understanding How Heat Affects the Human Body
Forever, we collectively assumed humans die around a wet bulb temperature of 35 C. Fortunately, on Earth a wet bulb temperature of 35 C is not found. Phew. Case closed. Let’s stop investigating now. It’s just people just seem to die an awful lot during heat waves. Continue …
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Series 19 – Landscapes and Streetscapes
Two videos and some Icelandic humor. Continue …
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Series 19 – North of Akureyri
Today we visited 3 small settlements north of Akureyri. Continue …
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Series 19 – East of Akureyri
We toured the sites East of Akureyri, which were, of course, stunning examples of natural beauty. Continue …
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Series 19 – Akureyri’s Botanical Gardens
Today we toured Akureyri’s botanical gardens and downtown area. Continue …
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