Month: May 2018

• Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie

  I sometimes wonder if in another life I was actually a woman –perhaps in one of those what-if lands that we whisper to our children as they are nodding off to sleep. A place where roles are not so much reversed as fluid –changing as necessary, dissolving when needed. Not a perfect place –even a […]

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  May 30, 2018

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  Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues, Dr. Bipasha Baruah, Dr. Kate Grantham, Female NGOs, Feminist NGOs, Kahlil Gibran, McGill University, NGOs, The Conversation, The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

• Is Man a Piece of Work?

  You see it all the time, don’t you –portrayals of great male warriors triumphing over equally determined rivals, their muscles rippling with sweat, their eyes scanning the crowd daring any others to step forward. It is a classic scene, presumably so reminiscent of the glory days of yore when men were really men –a classic […]

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  May 23, 2018

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  Achilles, classic literature, fairness, Hector, Homer, Iliad, Judas, masculinity, Matthew Sears, The Conversation, toxic masculinity, Trojan War, Troy, University of New Brunswick, Yeats

• What is the Merit of Originality?

  ‘I am not young enough to know everything,’ as Oscar Wilde once said, and maybe the rest of us aren’t either. It is often an unquestioned assumption that New trumps Old, that innovation usually leads to improvement, and that by standing on the shoulders of giants, the view is necessarily better. Clearer. But there is […]

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  May 16, 2018

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  Aurum Institute Johannesburg South Africa, Erica Lessem, Gavin Churchyard, GeneXpert, global health care, health care, metaphor, Myth, myth of Baucis and Philemon, national empathy, Nature Journal, New vs Old, Oscar Wilde, South Africa, TB, technology, the Treatment Action Group, Tuberculosis, WHO, Wisdom, World Health Organization

• The Feminist Egg

  Once upon a time, I suppose that one of the characteristics of Age was its hubris. After a certain age, it was easy to dismiss most new things as mere variations on time-tested themes –additions, clever perhaps, intriguing even, but still accretions. Ecclesiastes lived in old minds: The thing that hath been, it is that which shall […]

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  May 9, 2018

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  Age, androcentrism, cryptic female choice, Darwin, Ecclesiastes, eggs, Emily Martin, evolution, female, gender divide, Hamlet, Kahlil Gibran, Life, Mendel, new things, New York University, Quanta Magazine, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Truth, William Eberhard

• Noceboes? How Cute.

  I have always been fascinated by neologisms –new words that substitute for more commonly used ones. They can be clever, rude, or just plain silly, but often their point is to get noticed –or perhaps draw attention to their inventors. There was a time –before social media, at least- when we used to applaud people […]

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  May 2, 2018

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  Alexandra Tinnermann, ethics, Functional MRI scanner, neologisms, noceboes, Pandora’s box, placebo effect, placeboes, Science, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, zero sum game