Month: September 2016

• Probiosis

  Bacteria, by and large, have received a bum rap (pardon the pun). Ever since they were discovered, there was a sense they were up to no good. Why were they always hanging around sick people, it was asked? And why did foul smelling things –the miasma (you gotta love these words)- always have bacteria skulking…

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  September 28, 2016

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  bacteria, BBC news, Carl Popper, Confirmation bias, Genome Medicine, human microbiome, miasma, Oluf Pedersen, paradigm shifts, probiotics, Robert Frost

• As I Age

  As I age, it becomes increasingly clear to me that Life is far more complicated than I could ever have suspected. It is like a stew where I keep finding new ingredients –some to my liking, and some… Well, let’s just characterize them as unexpected -mysterious strangers that surface from time to time, wreak havoc,…

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  September 21, 2016

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  acceptance, accomodation, Age, autonomy, BBC news, China, concessions, evolution, Gay rights, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Life, Omnia vincit amor, sexual harassment, social movements, social solutios, society, toleration, values

• Barbie in the Mirror

  As an Ob/Gyn specialist I have been, I suppose, more than a passive observer of women over the years. But society has not been passive, either. Depending on where you live and in what cultural milieu, issues such as our sizes and shapes have become sources of real anxiety. Unrealistic expectations of morphology no doubt…

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  September 14, 2016

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  Barbie dolls, Baylor University, BBC news, children, dolls, labyrinth, Lenore Wright, Mattel, Minotaur, morphology, Ob/Gyn, obesity, plus size, Sarah Allen, Shakespeare, society, stereotypes, women

• Is there really Something in a Name?

  What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. So said Shakespeare’s Juliet. And yet even then –especially then- it mattered. Tribes have always mattered; we have always been known by our tribes: we are all either us or them aren’t we?” And little has changed…

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  September 7, 2016

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  BBC news, Bias, blind recruitment, CBC News, Charles Dodgson, CV, discrimination, Juliet, Lewis Carroll, meritocracy, names, prejudice, Shakespeare, symphony orchestras, tribal loyalty, tribes