Month: May 2017

• Life’s Like That

  Why is Life so hard to define? When I was in school, it was easy –as mentioned in a BBC article on the topic: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170101-there-are-over-100-definitions-for-life-and-all-are-wrong -Life was MRS GREN (Metabolism, Reproduction, Sensitivity, Growth, Respiration, Excretion, and Nutrition). That’s all you needed for the exam –although I’m glad they never asked for an explanation of Sensitivity. […]

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  May 31, 2017

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  BBC news, definition of life, definitions, genetic malfeasance, lawyer, Life, obfuscation, Obstetrician/Gynaecolgist, older mother, philosophy, Proust Phenomenon, stories

• Trolling for a Cause

  Okay, full disclosure: in my day, ‘trolling’ was either dropping a baited fishing line in the water behind the boat as you cruised, or watching out for Billy Goat Gruff villains under the next bridge. I didn’t realize just how much I was in need of a more recent update. I mean why does everything […]

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  May 24, 2017

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  BBC news, blogging, connotative, Dami Olonisakin, denotative, denotatives, diktat, endometrial ablation, endometrial biopsy, heavy periods, hysterectomy, internet bullying, internet shell, menorrhagia, metaphors, online anonymity, sex and relationship blog, side effects, treatment regimes, trolling, Twitter, women’s health

• Time Out, eh?

  Time-outs to wring behavioural change from naughty children are all the rage nowadays. Everywhere you go there seem to be men sitting near their tantrum-laden little boys in the parking lots of stores, or women standing outside of cars fastidiously ignoring the screams of alternately pounding and pouting children confined within. Perhaps this has been […]

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  May 17, 2017

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  babies, BBC news, behavioural change, CBC News, children, Cleopatra, Dr. Arthur Staats, Dr. Montrose Wolf, Journal of Academic Pediatrics, obstetrician, pennies, plastic speculum, quidnunc, salad days, Shakespeare, social exclusion, terracotta statue, time-outs, University of Washington

• Gender and Stress

  Even the most ardent proponents of gender parity will admit that equality of opportunity does not imply equality of physiology. ‘The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal,’ as Aristotle said. Homogeneous –likeness, if you will- is not necessarily homogenous (a biological term meaning structurally similar due to common ancestry). […]

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  May 10, 2017

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  BBC news, brain, child sexual abuse, Depression and Anxiety journal, Gender, gender parity, gyanecology, insula, insular cortex of brain, man-cold, National Center for PTSD, physiology, PTSD, Revisionism, sexual assault, Stanford University study, trauma, unconscious assumptions, US Department of Veteran’s Affairs, veterans, Vietnam veterans

• A Flicker of Hope

  It’s interesting what catches our attention when we surf the apps on our smartphones nowadays. Some of the more provocative articles have dubious sources, of course, but with a little digging the original study can often be found and the claims checked. The problem, however, is that even these results need to be reproducible in […]

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  May 3, 2017

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  Age, Alzheimer’s disease, BBC news, brain, cancer of the cervix, Flickering light therapy, gynaecologiy residents, gynaecology program, junior resident, memories, MIT, Nature, nurses, Pap smear, paranoid delusions, psychiatric ward, residency training, schizophrenia