New Days It’s not just in media, high tech and politics where hype often overwhelms hope. It also happens in medicine. The discovery of abnormalities in amyloid and tau proteins made researchers in the 1980s believe they had a handle on Alzheimer’s disease. A host of medications promised to stall or push back its manifestations. […]
Your Lying, Cheating Brain (3/3/14)
Creating Useful Lies “I just know it’s true. I saw it.” But your brain is not a DVD player, correctly recording what happened. And that’s a good thing. The unreliability of memory has been a literary theme for thousands of years. The creation of our many “true fictions” are ascribed to factors varying from personality […]
Do You Know How to Walk? (2/24/18)
Walking and Breathing Walking is like breathing. Effortless. You’re up and moving. One of nature’s healthiest activities can also prove one of its most pleasant. People often love cities because they are “walkable” – you can get what you need on your own two feet. And be entertained – and pleasured – all along the […]
What Is the Product? (1/28/14)
Health Versus Health Care Art can imitate life. Better, it can educate life. Perhaps it might perform that role for the American “health care industry.” Whose main product is – more of itself. To reform it properly will require far more than the bizarre tinkering of the Affordable Care Act. We will need to get […]
Fict or Faction? (12/30/13)
The New Rules for Unreality Is what you read true or false? Institution after institution – from science to the media – is deciding they don’t know. Often, they don’t care. Instead, many say if you want to know if something’s true, you must decide yourself. Presuming you have the time, means, interest and ability. […]