Tag: Cassandra

• We have seen better days

  Things seem to change so quickly nowadays, don’t they? Of course we often grow impatient if they don’t; we expect a channel to change as soon as we press the button, the Google result to appear immediately; waiting for the red light to turn green at an intersection seems to take far too long. We…

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  May 4, 2022

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  Aesop’s Fables, BBC Future, Cassandra, change, effects, Johan Galtung, multimodality, poisons, Princeton University, Richard Fisher, Rob Nixon, slow violence, structural violence, Violence

• Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.

  What is a friend? I think I could parallel St. Augustine’s answer about Time: ‘What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.’ Friendship is such a universal concept, such an acknowledged need, I’m not sure why…

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  April 5, 2017

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  ‘like’, Cassandra, Facebook, Facebook friends, friend, friendship, Macbeth, New York Times article, semantic argument, social media, St. Augustine, Time, Unwelt

• Biding the Pelting of this Pitiless Storm

  Hubris –the extreme arrogance that was so offensive to the old Greek gods that they reacted with punishment and an exile from grace- is that what this is? I’m not sure anymore… It’s not, perhaps, so obvious as the vaulting ambitions of a Macbeth or the arrogance of a Caesar, nor even the overweening pride…

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  November 16, 2016

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  antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, azithromycin, Caesarian sections, Cassandra, cefazolin, Here be dragons, hubris, Jeremiad, Julius Caesar, NEJM, New England Journal of Medicine, Oedipus Rex, post-op infections, pride, prophylactic antibiotics, Tita and colleagues, unintended consequences

• Uterine Transplants

  I just knew it was going to happen; I could feel it in the air: a live and healthy baby delivered from a transplanted uterus. It was the womb’s turn. After all, people have been trying to transplant stuff since anatomy began. Unfortunately, before the concepts of physiology, infection and immune rejection were appreciated, they…

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  October 29, 2014

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  azathioprine, Cassandra, corticosteroids, cryopreserved embryo, Dr. Christian Barnard, Dr. Mats Brannstrom, immunosuppressants, medical ethics, pregnancy, tacrolimus, Uterine transplants