Hold on to your pacemaker. Latest news is they can be hacked. Worse news is that people are making stock bets on that vulnerability. Normally, security companies wouldn’t explore medical devices as an avenue for hacking. One supposes decoding their encryption wouldn’t take h
For me, the most jaw dropping division in this wide and varied country of ours comes not from politics, religion or race but from the gap between those who have heaps of money and those who don’t. Life couldn’t be more stupefying than what passes for normal on the pages of magaz
Our president-elect has told so many lies to the public, his fibbing has taken on a transparency akin to truth-telling. What’s more, when his followers fail to notice his contradictions, they provide an example of cognitive dissonance working on a massive scale. Cognitive di
Like a person in a drunken stupor, I careen between bouts of messiness and sterile order. My physical work environment is becoming more and more sterile as I gain skills that allow me to file documents on my computer. The evolution poses a new problem, however. I sometimes get los
This is embarrassing. I went to a book sale the other day and sold all my novels, including my personal copy of Gothic Spring. I sold it by mistake. The book is valuable to me because I use it when I do readings. The pages are dog-eared and marked with comments I wish to m
If you’re feeling jittery about where the country is going, there’s good news on the personal front. The link between physical exercise and mental acuity is real. (“Ask the Brains,” Scientific American Mind, Sept/October 2016, pg.72.) As we already know, the brain requires