What Makes a Great Teacher?

7/28/16. If you are lucky, you know.




https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/07/27/erwin-chargaff-heraclitean-fire-misfit/

First Fatigue

7/28/16. Identity politics --- how many firsts can there be?


http://www.city-journal.org/html/end-womens-history-14666.html

The Road To Calm Workbook. Life-Changing Tools To Stop Runaway Emotions

7/27/16. I just read a new book by Carolyn Daitch and Lissah Lorberbaum. The book is filled with practical tools about how to deal with emotional flooding and improve self-regulation.

Harm-Reduction Fantasies

7/27/16. Deadly heroin epidemic in New York.


http://www.city-journal.org/html/harm-reduction-fantasies-14621.html

Why Some Romans had No Need for Dentists

7/26/16. The roots of good teeth during Roman times.


https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/04/romans-had-no-need-for-dentists-because-of-one-food-they-didn-t-eat/

Donald's Trump Ghost Writer Tells All

7/26/16. Ignore the man behind the curtain.


shttp://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

A Manifesto Against Parenting

7/25/16. Gardners not carpenters.


http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-manifesto-against-parenting-1467991745

What Should You Read This Summer?

7/22/16.

http://ideas.ted.com/what-should-you-read-this-summer-a-mega-reading-list/

Fake Culture Wars Distract Us from Economic Decline

7/22/16. Peter Thiel.


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/07/21/thiel_fake_culture_wars_only_distract_us_from_our_economic_decline.html

What Free Will Looks Like In The Brain

7/22/16


"I must believe in free will. I have no choice."


Isaac Beshavis Singer


http://releases.jhu.edu/2016/07/13/what-free-will-looks-like-in-the-brain/

Medication and Depression

7/21/16. Sometimes antidepressant therapy is almost a total cure --- sometimes it is not.




https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-practice/201605/thorough-recovery-depression

Stronger Drugs - Stronger Placebos

7/21/16. Peter Kramer, M.D.


https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-practice/201607/stronger-drugs-stronger-placebos

A Digital Afterlife?

7/18/16. Digital reincarnation?




http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/07/what-a-digital-afterlife-would-be-like/491105/

Barbarism Again in France

7/15/16. WWIII?


http://www.city-journal.org/html/barbarism-again-france-14649.html

Some Modest Proposals for Trumps' Vice-Presidential Pick

7/10/16. Joseph Epstein --- accurate, as usual.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/some-modest-proposals-for-trumps-vice-presidential-pick/article/2003123

A Manifesto Against "Parenting"

7/10/16. Parents are gardeners - not carpenters.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-manifesto-against-parenting-1467991745

The Best Time Management Strategy

7/1/16. Keep on dancing...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDlHlwcFdFE&app=desktop