Hilaire Belloc Quote

Altitude sickness, unregulated drugs and medical gas enabled workers to become drug abusers/addicts

I consider myself fortunate that I spent three years working at 7,775 feet before spending five years working at 13,796 feet on the summit of Mauna Kea. I can only wonder how much more severe my long...

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

In modern time slowness is new sickness.

If you are looking for a career that may induce a myriad of health conditions into you, I can recommend working at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

When I worked in high altitude astronomy, the worst sickness that I experienced was not at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea Observatory (MKO) in Hawaii, it was at Kitt Peak Natio...

Oxygen deprivation and supplemental oxygen are both bio-hazards for Mauna Kea workers

One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eye...

With the development of utility electricity for the masses in the 1900's, very few people realize that a new era of sickness and disease was unleashed that are collectively called radiation sickness.