Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 26, 2016 in Blog, Personal |

Meeting Dr. Werner Spitz, the father of modern forensic pathology
I attended a coroners convention in Las Vegas at the invitation of Dr. Michael Baden and met Dr. Werner Spitz, the father of modern forensic pathology. Here’s are few thoughts of what I learned from this remarkable encounter.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 27, 2015 in Blog, Politics, What's Left |

Do shrinking and therefore dividing news sources sabotage our common understanding of reality and impede compromise? Might this spell the end of democracy?
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 26, 2015 in Blog, Politics |

A thought-provoking essay appeared today online, “Why Twitter’s Dying (And What You Can Learn From It),” authored by Umair Haque. I urge everyone to read it. If accurate, the future doesn’t portend very well for traditional social media outlets, particularly the two most popular platforms in the United States — Twitter and Facebook.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 24, 2015 in Blog, Movie Reviews |

Irrefutable genius. Jerk. Innovator. Opportunist. Delinquent dad. Visionary. Narcissist. Man-child. Entrepreneur. Asshole.
All those descriptions (and then some) fit Steve Jobs.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 5, 2015 in Blog, Movie Reviews |

Leering over my keyboard while attempting to write a movie review of “The Martian,” one senses the same confusion upon gazing at the controls a spaceship.
One isn’t sure exactly which button to push or what lever to pull.
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