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

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