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Category Archives: Books
My Book Draw-List for 2019
One thing I like about any dawning New Year is the compiling of lists, which come in various genres like resolutions, lead events, best albums, movies, TV programs and, of course, roll calls of individuals who’ve passed before the New … Continue reading
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Tagged book draw-bag 2019, booklist, booklist 2019, RalphJoly's booklist for 2019
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And a Child Shall Lead Them: Healing What Ails Us
I was talking just a few minutes ago with my better half, wondering just how I used to spend my idle hours before the Internet came into vogue. As is, I’m cuffed to a binary lodestone, whether smart phone, iPad, … 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
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
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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
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Tagged alzheimers, ApoE4, brain, Dementia, Dr. Dale Bredesen, MCIk, Mild Cognitive Impairment, neurology, ReCODE
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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
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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
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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
The Left’s War on Free Speech
But what was strange was that although Goldstein was hated and despised by everybody, although every day and a thousand times a day, on platforms, on the telescreen, in newspapers, in books, his theories were refuted, smashed, ridiculed, held up … Continue reading
On First Looking Into Milford’s Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. –Edna … Continue reading
