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Miracle in a Capsule: Hope, Hype, and the High Price of Silence.
By Hans Casteels lamenting on why expensive urine is the most profitable industry on earth.
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October 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Muffins
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Muffins
The muffin is, in theory, a harmless object: a small cake, eaten without cutlery, sold in coffee shops by the dozen to people who mistake sugar for breakfast. Yet language, ever inventive, decided tha...
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September 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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The Great Retirement Racket. It Could Be So Goddamn Different...
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The Great Retirement Racket. It Could Be So Goddamn Different...
My neighbor Stu retired last Friday after decades of lawyering for an insurance company, and over dinner with him and his Chinese fiancée, our conversation patched together by instant-translation apps...
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September 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Sun Tzu’s Art of War: Now With Handy Appendices on Flank Maneuvers, Ambush Tactics, and the Subjugation of Your Prostate
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Sun Tzu’s Art of War: Now With Handy Appendices on Flank Maneuvers, Ambush Tactics, and the Subjugation of Your Prostate
It starts not with a trumpet or a cavalry charge, but with a blood test and a frown; your urologist announcing, in the same tone one reserves for “we’re out of decaf,” that your prostate has gone rogu...
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August 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The University of Waterloo’s Really Wonderful Start-Fit Program
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The University of Waterloo’s Really Wonderful Start-Fit Program
It was a Wednesday morning, the kind of morning that smells faintly of optimism and floor sanitizer, when I found myself walking, surprisingly willingly, into a gym.
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July 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Hans and the Expanding Universe
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Hans and the Expanding Universe
also believes that if you're going to fall apart, you might as well document it with dry humor, medical irony, and an uncooperative waistband.
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July 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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The Ballad of the Two-Legged Steer: A Meditative Rant on Castration and Weight Gain in the Age of Medical Progress
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The Ballad of the Two-Legged Steer: A Meditative Rant on Castration and Weight Gain in the Age of Medical Progress
Hormone-hobbled raconteur, part-time philosopher, and full-time human guinea pig in the ongoing medical experiment known as "modern cancer care."
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July 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Belgium, The Country That Makes the USA Look Normal
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Belgium, The Country That makes The USA Look Normal
Why I Left Belgium: A Brutal Farewell to a Nation Drowning in Linguistic Lunacy and Petty Nationalism
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July 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The difference between an observation and an accusation
By someone who's learned to sleep on the edge of the bed with no covers
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July 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Procurement: The Most Strategic Function Nobody Respects (Including Itself)
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Procurement: The Most Strategic Function Nobody Respects (Including Itself)
Procurement is inherently a strategic function, and stakeholders across departments tend to view it as a threat to their control over budgets, relationships, and decision-making.
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June 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Beyond the Biopsy: Designing the Future of Prostate Cancer Through Artificial Intelligence
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Beyond the Biopsy: Designing the Future of Prostate Cancer Through Artificial Intelligence
I used to sit across boardroom tables with executives, whiteboarding strategies to harness AI, not as a gimmick, but as a practical tool to solve real problems. I’d ask: What pain points exist? What d...
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June 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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BMW, BBQs & a Banjo: The Unravelling of Regional Vice Presidents
It begins innocently enough. A new job, a modest promotion, a badge with your name printed in bold sans-serif. But blink twice and suddenly you're signing emails as "Director of Cross-Functional Syner...
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June 17, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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WORLD HELD HOSTAGE BY LOUD IDIOTS ON BOTH SIDES, WE'VE ALL GONE MAD. TRULY MAD
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WORLD HELD HOSTAGE BY LOUD IDIOTS ON BOTH SIDES, WE'VE ALL GONE MAD. TRULY MAD
Idiocy? Idiocy, it seems, is bipartisan.
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June 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Infernal Design: The Prostate as Hell’s Doorbell - or Her Wicked Sense Of Humor
In which She plants a ticking time-gland near the backdoor, assigns men a lifelong obsession with penis size, and calls it intelligent design.
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May 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Thank you, Sharon, For 30 Years Of Unexpected Normalcy
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Thank you, Sharon, For 30 Years Of Unexpected Normalcy
we’re celebrating thirty years. Not the glossy version. The real version. The one that includes mutts, Munich, missteps, Machu Picchu, and medical indignities.
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May 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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@HealthUnlocked. Welcome to the men’s health forums, where the sick are silenced, and the dying are disciplined
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@HealthUnlocked. Welcome to the men’s health forums, where the sick are silenced, and the dying are disciplined
Welcome to the Men's Health Prostate Cancer forum at @HealthUnlocked. Please leave your critical thinking at the door. Your prognosis may be uncertain, but your compliance is mandatory.
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May 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Eurovision and Prostate Cancer; surprisingly similar.
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Eurovision and Prostate Cancer; surprisingly similar.
For American, and probably some Canadian men, who don’t know what the Eurovision Song Festival is, here’s a simple explanation.
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May 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Love in the Time of ADT: A Chemically Castrated Gentleman’s Guide to Pleasuring Your Partner Without Your Former Best Friend.
If you’re a prostate cancer patient on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), congratulations: your testosterone is now somewhere between “gelatin dessert” and “botanical garden snail.”
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May 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Chapter 2: Early Detection: Manufacturing Patients Since 1970
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Chapter 2: Early Detection: Manufacturing Patients Since 1970
We found something. You should be very afraid, but also very grateful.
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May 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Chapter 1: Medical Myths That Need a Scalpel to the Throat
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Chapter 1: Medical Myths That Need a Scalpel to the Throat
I’m not a conspiracy theorist—medical interventions have saved my life twice, and I owe a deep debt to the science and skill that made that possible. But let’s not confuse gratitude with blindness
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May 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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The Drama Of Buying A New Car
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The Drama Of Buying A New Car
An Autoimmune Response to Car Shopping, Marriage, and Medically-Induced Eunuchry
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May 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Welcome to Oncology, Inc.
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Welcome to Oncology, Inc.
Cancer used to be a diagnosis. Now it’s a business model
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May 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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A view from north of the border
Friends,
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February 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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If you can’t find the book you’re looking for, you’re in the …
November 29, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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It’s all relative
November 29, 2024 at 9:58 PM