A magnet given to me by a friend sits on my refrigerator door.  It reads, “If you don’t take care of your body, where will you live?”   Anyone who doubts good nutrition is important only needs to look at the role it played in the development of our species. As writer Suzana H

James Wolcott in a recent essay pokes his finger at the thorn of my discontent.  We are in a period of hysteria where the political alt-right and alt-left, overblown with fears and secretly hoping for a revolution, begin to sound the same.  As Wolcott explains, the two sides may not

By the time a person reaches their 80s, many will have had hip or knee replacement surgery and possibly a pacemaker inserted under their skin to moderate heart beats.  I often write about robots becoming more human with the aid of Artificial Intelligence (AI), but the question might

Part of me identifies with Donald Trump.  When a politician wants to get something controversial done, the media is as welcome as mosquitoes at a fishing hole. Sometimes journalists do a shoddy job of covering the issues.  Sometimes the headlines are out of cinque with the  story,

After three months of living with Donald Trump and hoping for the best, I continue to be dumbfounded by the strength of his support among women. We know  53% of white women supported him in the last election. (“Feminist Fall,” by Jessa Crispin, New Republic, March 2017.)  Why th

Sallie Krawcheck writes no matter what women do, if they play the game by men’s rules, they won’t win. “Women tend to get penalized no matter how they act on their way to the top. Those who get there are often set up for failure, tapped to lead only in moments of crisis, when th

I am wary that nerds are swallowing too many algorithms when I read interviews like the one recently published in Wired.  (“The God Complex,” by Olivia Solon, Wired, March 2017, pgs. 18-19.)  Yuval Harari has written a new book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, in which h

I saw several references to PewDiePie on Facebook, recently, and also in the gossip area of my Yahoo page.  Whether the name belonged to a person or a dessert, I didn’t know and didn’t much care.  But the buzz grew until it piqued my curiosity.  For my readers, many of whom are

We’ve all heard versions of the Cherokee saying, “Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.”  The adage describes empathy, the ability to  identify with the experience of others based on our own. The more experiences we have, the greater our emotional I. Q

The famous Guggenheim Museum began as  a private collection. (Blog 2/20/17)  An admirer of the old masters, Solomon R. Guggenheim was weaned away from them by a friend who took him to see the work of Vasily Kandinsky.  That was the beginning of a love affair with modern art and Gug