Month: January 2019

• Memory Vaults

  After a certain age, many of us have concerns about our memories. Nothing much at first, of course -just things like forgetting why you went into the kitchen, or where you put your keys. Later, it can progress to having to write down a phone number immediately after you hear it, say, rather than trusting […]

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  January 30, 2019

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  BBC Future, early memories, hippocampus, language, Zaria Gorvett

• To Be or Not to Be

  We are all creatures of our cultures; we are all influenced, if not captured, by the ethos that affected our parents. And for most of us, it is where we feel the most comfortable. It does not require any clarification, or justification -it just is the way things are. The way things are supposed to […]

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  January 23, 2019

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  Aeon magazine, Auckland University of Technology, Australian National University in Canberra, bissu, Bugis people, Caitlyn Jenner, culture, Gender, gender pluralism, Indonesia, Kahlil Gibran, LGBTQIA, Peter Jackson, School of Languages and Social Sciences, sexual identity, Sharyn Graham Davies, third gender, transgender

• He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf

  I am an obstetrician, and not a neuropsychiatrist, but I feel a definite uneasiness with the idea of messing with brains –especially from the inside. Talking at it, sure –maybe even tweaking it with medications- but it seems to me there is something… sacrosanct about its boundaries. Something akin to black-boxhood -or pregnant-wombhood, if you […]

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  January 16, 2019

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  algorithms, Alik Widge, Black box, Boston, brain, brain implants, closed-loop stimulation, DARPA, deep-brain stimulation, Edward Chang, epilepsy, ethics, Harvard University, journal Nature, Massachusetts General Hospital, mental illness, mood disorders, neuropsychiatry, Omid Sani, Parkinson’s disease, personality, Science, unintended consequences, University of California San Francisco, University of Southern California in Los Angeles

• A Pound of Flesh?

    I’m retired now, and my kids have long since passed the age when, even if I were so disposed, I would dare lay a hand on either them or their children. But of course I wouldn’t -parenting wasn’t like that in my family. I suspect I rarely hung out in the Goldilocks zone in […]

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  January 9, 2019

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  African proverb, Elisa Romano, https://musingsonwomenshealth.com/2017/05/17/time-out-eh/, musingsonwomenshealth.com, musingsonwomenshealth.com/…/consequences-the-smacking-laws, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), spanking, The Conversation, the Incredible Years (IY) program, the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), time-out, Tracie O Afifi, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), University of Manitoba, University of Ottawa, verbal abuse

• The Idea of Ideal

  Just when you think that you have a handle on what you’re supposed to look like, just when you’ve lost the weight, dyed your hair, and even forsworn relaxing at the beach on your days off, they up and change it on you. And the worst part: you don’t even know who ‘they’ are so […]

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  January 2, 2019

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  Brooke L. Bennett, fitness, fitspiration, Frances Bozsik, muscularity, The Conversation, thinness, thinspiration, University of Hawaii, University of Missouri