Medical treatments can be both miraculous and a curse.  We’ve all marveled at commercials where a drug’s side effects seem worse than the ailment.  I had a graphic experience last week.  My doctor proposed shooting dye up my arm as part of an examination.  Unfortunately, the d

In the past, making an anonymous contribution to charity was the norm, according to writers, Erick Konigsberg and Ben Ryder.  Many one-per centers in their day, like John D. Rockefeller, contributed large amounts of cash to colleges and other public institutions with no fanfare.   

Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Justice who died recently, labeled his brand of jurisprudence “originalism,” meaning he imagined he could go back hundreds of years and peer into the minds of our founding fathers as they drafted our Constitution.  (Click) For Scalia to perform as mi

 Kade Crockford, Director of Technology for Liberty with the ACLU points out Americans spend billions of dollars each year fighting the war on terror with failed systems. In the meantime, the only disagreement between the two political parties  is about “how quickly we should disp

Thinking makes it so.  The brain’s ability to create its world is the subject of my novel Trompe l’Oeil and that of much scientific research.   I might appear to be repeating myself unnecessarily by bringing the topic up again.  Nonetheless, new studies are giving us a greater

Though male legislators in state after state in America continue to write laws restricting a woman’s right to end a pregnancy, some of our sex continue to insist gender has no place when considering a candidate for public office.   Can they really be so complacent? Inequality lies

“…few people realize just how much information algorithms can cull from their routine activity on Facebook and Twitter.”  So writes Johannes Eichstaedt as he reveals the types of research that’s going on at social media sites.  (“Stressed, Angry, at Risk? By Johannes C. Ei

The best pill for health is a good diet.  We all know that and we also know what that diet is.  Largely, its Mediterranean with its concentration on fruits and vegetables, olive oil, grains, beans and fish.  Add a few nuts and you protect your heart as well as your brain. Cut out s

I don’t recall much fanfare about it, but last year, Maggie Kuhn’s Grey Panthers movement died for lack of interest.  A splinter groups survives but so far they have made few waves, even though in the United States, we have a growing aging population.  Certainly, the elderly nee

Speed in technology is critical.  The theory is that if you can get your service or product to market faster than anyone else, you increase your customer base.  Deliver pizza 5 minutes faster than your competitor, and you win the race.  That’s why  Robert Safian, editor of F