by Slate Stern | Oct 11, 2023 | Slate's Law Blog
Some intensely painful injuries do not look very impressive; they do not leave any visible external marks such as bruises or cuts, and they may not even yield any abnormal findings on diagnostic images such as X-rays or ultrasounds. For example, a whiplash injury is a...
by Slate Stern | Oct 4, 2023 | Slate's Law Blog
The residents of New Mexico, of all people, are acutely aware that some people hold some far-fetched ideas about science. If you happen to stop at a gas station near a major highway exit in Santa Fe, you will find cars with license plates from Colorado, Utah, and...
by Slate Stern | Sep 27, 2023 | Slate's Law Blog
The laws of physics may not apply in cartoons, but the Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons give you an idea of how fast the traffic moves on New Mexico’s highways and on how few sidewalks there are in New Mexico. Meanwhile, no one ever decided to stay indoors in...
by Slate Stern | Sep 19, 2023 | Slate's Law Blog
Most of the time, you do not notice the parts of your body that do not hurt and are not malfunctioning. You often hear from people with chronic or severe illnesses that they had never thought about much of what their bodies do on an ongoing basis until the symptoms...
by Slate Stern | Sep 13, 2023 | Slate's Law Blog
Here in New Mexico, you are probably used to using different systems of measurement in different contexts. You probably know your weight in pounds but not in kilograms and the temperature of this year’s summer heat in triple-digit degrees Fahrenheit but not in degrees...
