turning 40, is this the decade of wisdom? “I turn 40 this month, and let’s just say I’m not looking forward to this new juncture, which promises to bring everything from aching joints to more wrinkles to further bouts of forgetfulness. I’ve been told that at 40, I can Read more…
Here are a few articles I found interesting today: women’s brains on steroids? “Millions of women take birth control pills, blithely unaware that their effects may be subtly seeping into and modulating brain structure and activity.” where did altruism begin? There is a lively debate! “AN EXPECTANT silence has descended Read more…
Here are a couple of stories to start off the week: the blind man who can SEE obstacles ‘”In a darkened room, a blind man walks along a white line in the shape of a large ellipse. He is taking part in an experiment which I have been invited to Read more…
how you sit may affect how you vote “WHEN the French legislative assembly met for the first time, in October 1791, it organised itself in such a way that conservative members sat to the right and liberals sat to the left. Over the years, this arrangement became a metaphor for Read more…
It’s good to look back on the successes of the prior year, but the future always beckons us forward! me, myself and my stranger “Where are you right now? Maybe you are at home, the office or a coffee shop—but such responses provide only a partial answer to the question Read more…