Is Everything Wrestling?

5/27/16.




http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/magazine/is-everything-wrestling.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&_r=0

America: The Most Inclusive Nation

5/26/16. David Horowitz.


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/25/david-horowitz-america-the-worlds-most-inclusive-n/

Sally Satel MD: Desparately Seeking a Kidney - 2007

5/25/16. Kidney failures, kidneys, and transplants --- a very serious problem for many.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/magazine/16kidney-t.html?_r=1

Maybe Life in the Cosmos is Rare After All

5/25/16. Paul Davies in Scientific American.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/maybe-life-in-the-cosmos-is-rare-after-all/

Thomas Sowell: Grim Choices for President

5/25/16. Politicians with simple answers to complex problems ---


http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell051716.php3

Bill Gates: My 10 Favorite Books

5/24/16. Worth a look.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/t-magazine/my-10-favorite-books-bill-gates.html?_r=1

Most of Existence is a Mystery

5/24/16. Approximately 5% of our reality is known.


http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/what_lies_beneath.html

Interview with Pulitzer Prize Playwright David Mamet: On being a liberal and becoming a conservative

5/15/16. Mr. Mamet started to read Fredrick Hayek, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, and learned.

http://www.wsj.com/video/interview-david-mamet-conservative-conversion/336DD0C2-E16D-4F27-BF7D-AE54607BB71C.html

Putting Grit in Its Place

5/15/16. NYT op-ed writer David Brooks on Professor Angela Duckworth's new book:  "Grit."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/opinion/putting-grit-in-its-place.html

Neuro Expert Testifies for Tsarnaev

5/15/16. Dr. Sally Satel and Professor Scott O. Lilienfeld write about the adolescent brain, the law, and the Boston bombing. What we don't know and what we think we know that ain't true --- can hurt us.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/11/neuro-expert-testifies-for-tsarn

part I

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/07/the-immature-teen-brain-defense-and-the-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-trial/aev/

See Drs. Satel and Lilienfeld book:  "Brainwashed:  The Seductive Use of Neuroscience."

Why Do Millennials Embrace Socialism?

5/15/16. Because they don't know what it is.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435326/bernie-sanders-millennials-socialism-election-2016

Why Are Our Business Leaders So Dour?

5/15/16. Good question.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/why-are-our-business-leaders-so-dour/article/2002400

Historical Opinions on Hiroshima, President Obama, and the Atomic Bomb

5/15/16.

http://www.aei.org/publication/historical-opinions-on-hiroshima-president-obama-and-the-atomic-bomb/

Was Christopher Hitchen's Shaky in his Atheism?

5/16/15.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/christopher-hitchens-was-shaky-in-his-atheism-new-book-suggests.html?_r=1

Aphorism: The Long History of a Short Form

5/15/16.    "... La Rochefoucauld worked on his collection for years, revising it until each aphorism perfectly balanced deliberateness with casualness, self-evidence with counterintuitiveness, and impact with concision. The mark of a great mind, he wrote, was to “say many things with few words” (adding, “little minds use many words to say nothing”). With the Maxims the aphorism begins its move from philosophy to literature, where the beauty of expression is the only consolation for the ugliness of what is expressed..."

http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/long-history-short-form

Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook Confronts the Death of Her Husband

5/15/16.  Ms. Sandberg gives the commencement speech at UC Berkley.

http://notesofapsychologywatcher.blogspot.com/

Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme

5/15/16. Psychiatrist Paul McHugh reports that transgender people suffer from gender dysphoria.

Dr. McHugh was chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School starting in the 1970's when he witnessed follow-up studies on transgender patients who had sex change surgery.

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15145/

What was the Great Era for American Innovation?

5/14/16.  Some people don't know how good they have it.



http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/upshot/what-was-the-greatest-era-for-american-innovation-a-brief-guided-tour.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&src=me&WT.nav=MostEmailed

What is the Patient's Respondsibility in the Opoid Epidemic?

5/13/16. Where Does It Hurt?


http://www.city-journal.org/html/where-doesnt-it-hurt-14443.html

Thought Field Therapy

5/11/16. Buyer beware.


http://www.csicop.org/si/show/can_we_really_tap_our_problems_away_a_critical_analysis_of_thought_field_th

Is Addiction a Brain Disease?

5/11/16. Psychiatrist Sally Satel --- "No."

http://www.aei.org/publication/is-addiction-a-brain-disease/

When You're Called to Your Life's Work

5/11/16. Science and spirituality.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/when-youre-called-to-your-lifes-work-1462899094

FEEL ME: What the New Science of Touch Says about Us

5/9/16. Adam Gopnik




http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/what-the-science-of-touch-says-about-us#

What smart folk snort coke?

5/8/16. Psychiatrist Sally Satel and psychologist Scott Lilienfeld.

http://www.aei.org/publication/what-smart-folk-snort-coke/

When our reason is hijacked by an uncontrollable urge

5/8/16. Psychiatrist Sally Satel.

http://www.aei.org/publication/when-our-reason-is-hijacked-by-an-uncontrollable-urge/

Israel's Prophetic War

5/8/16. Bret Stephens reviews "Pumpkinflowers," by Matti Friedman

A forgotten war in Lebanon anticipated America's battles in Iraq and Afghanistan.


http://www.wsj.com/articles/israels-prophetic-war-1462564312

Hard Truths about Race on Campus

5/7/16. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt.


http://www.wsj.com/articles/hard-truths-about-race-on-campus-1462544543

Book Review of "Grit"

5/4/16. Professor Angela Duckworth's new book.


http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-virtue-of-hard-things-1462313591

Why You Should Have More Empathy

5/3/16. Walk a mile in my shoes.




http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-you-should-have-more-empathy-1462210724

Why Are Identical Twins Different?

5/1/16. Sameness and difference. Nature and nurture. 

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/02/breakthroughs-in-epigenetics