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- Artificial Intelligence: Will It Take Your Job?
- Alzheimer Breakthrough? Bredeson’s The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline
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Author Archives: RJ
Why We Name Our Children as We do.
Have you been following today’s trend in baby names? Whatever happened to names like George, Susan, Henry, Robert, Marvin, Kenneth, and Molly? Names typically follow fashion and fashion, of course, changes just like clothing, hairstyles, and music favorites. We’ve this … Continue reading
Thoughts on a remarkable book I’ve just re-read
This week I re-read Brad Willis Warrior Pose, a book that has lodged in my memory since I first came upon it two years ago. I read a lot of books, but only a few do I read twice. It’s the … Continue reading
Trophy Hunting Looms for Grizzly Bears
Averaging 800 pounds, powerful and fast moving, voracious defenders of their young, grizzly bears are a North American treasure deserving of our awe and worthy of preservation. Native Americans held them sacred and embedded them in their legends, dances and … Continue reading
Amy Lowell’s “A Fixed Idea”: An Exploration in Paradox
A Fixed Idea What torture lurks within a single thought When grown too constant; and however kind, However welcome still, the weary mind Aches with its presence. Dull remembrance taught Remembers on unceasingly; unsought The old delight is with us … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, imagism, imagist poets, Italian Sonnet, modernism, nostalgia, Obsessiveness, Paradox
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Artificial Intelligence: Will It Take Your Job?
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds” (Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita following the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima) Recently, my daughter shared details of her trip as an Amazon employee to Las Vegas to attend … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Technology
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, MKartin Fod, offshoring
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Alzheimer Breakthrough? Bredeson’s The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline
Death has many doorways. Yet most of us go by way of heart disease, cancer, or respiratory disease; in fact, 50%. The good thing is that we can preempt these diseases, if not reverse them through lifestyle changes. Not so … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Health, Psychology
Tagged alzheimers, ApoE4, brain, Dementia, Dr. Dale Bredesen, MCIk, Mild Cognitive Impairment, neurology, ReCODE
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Does American Sign Language (ASL) Have a Future?
We all have hobbies or special interests. Mine has been studying languages. As a child, it literally became an obsession. I’d buy paperbacks with my meager allowance, seemingly offering a pathway to fluency in German, a language I desperately wanted … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Technology
Tagged American Sign Language, ASL, Bébian, cochlear implants, deaf, Gerald Shea, hard of hearing, hearing aids, oralism, sign language, The Sounds of Silence
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Does the Qur’an Preach Violence?
Yesterday came news of the slaughter of up to 300 Sufi worshippers exiting a mosque in Egypt’s Sinai at the close of prayer, among them, twenty-seven children. It isn’t the first time such a murderous attack on unarmed civilians, even … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reflections
Tagged Boko Haram, Garry Wills, ISIS, Islam, Koran, Quran, Sufi, Taliban, theocracy
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Elegy for Iris: A Review
“We can only learn to love by loving.” —Iris Murdoch I’ve just read John Bayley’s Elegy for Iris, his moving memoir of his wife, renowned British novelist Iris Murdoch—26 novels in addition to nonfiction—who succumbed to Alzheimer’s in 1999 at … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged authors, book reviews, Elegy for Iris, Iris and her Friends, Irish Murdoch, John Bagley, writers
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My hummingbird friends
My hummingbird friends descend upon my garden landscape each spring, or like clockwork with the advent of April, having journeyed more than a thousand miles from their winter feeding grounds to the south or in Mexico. They stay with me, … Continue reading
