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Tuesday, May 6, 2003 |
Experts See Mind's Voices in New Light. A small group of scientists has begun studying auditory hallucinations more intensively, and listening far more carefully to patients' experiences. By Erica Goode. [New York Times: Science]
But how, I wonder, is this like or not like the experience of, say, Isaiah? (The prophet Isaiah.)
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A Zealous Quest for Chemicals to Heal Ailing Brains. Throughout Dr. Floyd E. Bloom's career, he has been looking at chemicals and the ways they affect the nervous system. By Claudia Dreifus. [New York Times: Science]
But in this article he speaks as much, and as knowledgably, about the state of the American medical system:
I see this every day in my wife, Jody Corey-Bloom, and her practice. She is a dedicated neurologist. Yet she spends most of the time allotted for contact with patients trying to get their insurance providers to allow the treatments she knows are most needed and completing endless paperwork to keep benefits coming.
Her worst fears are confirmed every time a clerk with barely a high school education vetoes her recommended treatment because another medicine may be less costly, in the short term.
10:48:04 PM
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on a klog apart:
looking at the depopulation of Europe and Japan, and The Effects of Global Aging on the Global Workforce.
[And one on MegaVote, an elected officials tracking service.]
10:28:43 PM
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"As an entry in any intergalactic design competition, Industrial Civilization would be thrown out at the qualifying round."
-- David Orr, Earth in Mind
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
It's ALL about design.
-- Gil Friend
5:12:55 PM
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[Alternet]: The federal government -- with Republicans in control of the White House, Congress and the judiciary -- has launched the largest rollback of environmental laws and regulations ever.
The reasons: oil, and fundamentalism.
Nevertheless, beyond all these more obvious anti-environmental motivations there lies a more deep-seated inspiration....
Marty Jezer, writing for the online Common Dreams News Center, notes that "One has to go back to the Stalinist Era of the Soviet Union to find such a display of political arrogance and ignorance of science."
8:35:23 AM
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© Copyright 2006 Gil Friend.
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