A recent edition of AARP magazine featured three Hollywood stars who are disrupting the perception that as women age, they become invisible.  Unlike the Brits who cherish older actresses like  Maggie Smith, Judy Dench and Helen Mirron, Americans are slow to embrace the notion of cha

I had an enjoyable lunch the other day with Jane Vogel, President of Age & Gender Equity in the Arts, (AGE) an organization dedicated to challenging stereotypes about aging and gender in the arts and theater in particular.  The group awarded $30,000 this year to organizations tha

The debate goes on about whether or not psychology and other branches of social sciences are true sciences. Can their research be subjected to rigorous  methods and the data verified by other researchers? The argument, pro and con, gathered  intensity, recently, over the theory of â

If you were cast away on a deserted island with only one  choice for a companion, who would you chose?  The thief, the murderer or someone morally righteous?  I’d chose either the thief or the murderer.  The thief would have nothing to steal and the murderer would have  already

Women and society as a whole had a great day recently, when the US Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that regulated  abortion clinics so stringently, the rules would have run them out of business. (Blog 6/30/15) Texas insisted the regulation was intended to protect women’s heal

We’ve all heard the commercials promoting prescription drugs.  Take a pill to reduce a headache but the side effect could cause a heart attack. Not only is the pharmaceutical approach to illness, risky, but the cost of the drugs can be astronomical.  One company, Glaxo-Smith-Kline

Who knew there are 14 food boards, presumably regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that receive a billion dollars in taxpayer money to promote agri-business? Who knew these funds were used to stifle negative information about the quality of food products?  Agricultural ga

More than once, I’ve shared concerns that technology is reducing the number of jobs in our society and allowing money to pool in the hands of billionaires who use it to make decisions  better left to the community.  My solution is to disrupt the money pool and allow it to flow to

The latest research on Alzheimer’s hasn’t pulled back many veils about the disease but it has uncovered a few puzzling facts. For example, some people who have the neuron-killing tangles associated with the illness, never display symptoms.  Others aren’t so lucky.  To explain