Tag: BBC news

• Dealing with Women

  “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” cried Chicken Little running around frantically when confronted with an unexpected knock on her head. There are any number of versions of the story but all, seemingly, involving females who misinterpreted some benign event as being catastrophic. Fearful. Outside of their comfort zones. In other words, acted inappropriately given…

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  August 12, 2015

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  BBC news, Chicken Little, Confirmation bias, dominoes, folk tale, Henny Penny, Iran nuclear negotiations, Macbeth, male bastion, male-only club, misogynous culture, misogyny, Orthodox Jewish community, P5+1, Sampson, Samson’s hair, shake on it, shaking hands, stereotyping, Wendy Sherman

• Recycling the Old

  For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven… Really? It made sense when I was young, I suppose -when all of Time was ahead. When I needed to think there was some order to things. That past and future meant old and new. But as the years slip past, I…

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  July 30, 2015

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  BBC news, bisphosphonates, bone metastases, breast cancer, Ecclesiastes, glitazone, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Lancet, new, old, Parkinson’s disease, Phoenix, recycling, Talmud, Wisdom, wisdom of elders

• Treemail?

  Treemail? You’ve got to be kidding… Or is this simply a natural progression from Emailing your fridge, or telling the front door of your house to lock when you’re at work -something that in four or five years will be so banal and unsurprising that pointing it out as interesting will ensure that you are…

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  July 26, 2015

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  BBC news, Carl Jung, crystal, friendship, Haecceity, Hamlet, identifiers, individual, individuation, medieval philosophy, Melbourne, Polonius, Quiddity, Shakespeare, social media, Treemail, trees

• A Slim Chance?

  ‘They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they are that starve with nothing’ Although the word ‘obesity’ was not used until the beginning of the 17th century, the suspicion that there was something distinctly unhealthy about it has been with us for millenia –certainly long before Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice was…

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  July 24, 2015

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  American Journal of Public Health, bariatric surgery, BBC news, BMI, health problems, International Size Acceptance Association, morbid obesity, obesity, primary prevention, Shakespeare, stigma of weight, The Merchant of Venice

• Age Prejudice

  I suppose I should have seen it coming. I suppose I should have laid down firmer tracks, taken a more trodden path. I suppose I shouldn’t have been so influenced by Robert Frost’s poem, the Road Not Taken. But I was… ‘Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled…

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  July 18, 2015

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  Age, Atticus FInch, BBC news, Dementia, frontal lobe atrophy, Go Set A Watchman, Harper Lee, prejudice, Psychological Science, Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, To Kill A Mockingbird, University of Queensland, William von Hippel

• The Empathy of Age

  I am intrigued by the concept of empathy. Variously defined as caring, psychological identification, or even sharing another person’s feelings, it is nevertheless a quality incumbent upon those of us in the health profession in whatever capacity. Empathy is a word that has, in some minds, become synonymous with other altruistic traits such as sympathy,…

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  July 3, 2015

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  Age, art of listening, BBC news, compassion, deductive reasoning, empathy, hot flushes, inductive reasoning, Krishnamurti, learning empathy, radical listening, reiteration, St. Thomas Aquinas, substitution of words, sympathy, words