Will You Ever Be Able to Upload Your Brain?

10/11/15. Life and death.

"...I certainly have my own fears of annihilation. But I also know that I had no existence for the 13.8 billion years that the universe existed before my birth, and I expect the same will be true after my death. The universe is not about me or any other individual; we came and we go as part of a much larger process. More and more I am content with this awareness. We all find our own solutions to the problem death poses. For the foreseeable future, bringing your mind back to life will not be one of them."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/will-you-ever-be-able-to-upload-your-brain.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

Some Guidelines to the Evaluation and Diagnosis of Children and Adolescents with Psychological Disorders

10/11/15. Art and science.

http://michiganpsychologicalassociation.org/newsletter_article_4.php

Why Can't We Unite Neuroscience and Psychiatry

10/10/15.  A million-billion connections between neurons; and a gap between mind and brain we don't understand.

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/why-cant-we-unite-neuroscience-and-psychiatry/

The Bioethics Dilemma

10/7/15. Dr. Sally Satel

https://www.aei.org/publication/the-bioethics-dilemma/

A Performance Review May Be Good For Your Marriage

10/6/15. Another insightful article by Elisabeth Bernstein.


http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-performance-review-may-be-good-for-your-marriage-1444068231

Mental Illness and Guns

10/5/15. What does the research show?


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318286/

The Black Family

10/5/15. Sorting through the research.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/black-incarcerations-uncomfortable-history/408733/

Al Hirschfeld - The Line King

10/5/15. Stefan Kanfer weighs in.

http://www.city-journal.org/2015/bc1004sk.html

1927: Bath School Disaster

10/3/15. One of the worst mass murders at a school in American history - 1927.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

Inside the Mind of the Mass Killer

20/3/15. 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/slightly-blighty/201510/inside-the-mind-the-mass-killer

The Doctor Isn't In

9/28/15. Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. We know much, but not enough.


https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-doctor-isnt-in/

The 10 Tiny Creatures You Didn't Realize Were Controlling Your World

9/28/15. Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there.

http://io9.com/10-tiny-creatures-you-didnt-realize-were-controlling-yo-1732931497

Redistribution: The Unconquerable Delusion

9/28/15. Mona Charen --- a high powered mind with an accurate aim.


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/25/redistribution_the_unconquerable_delusion_128211.html

The Man Who Made Jazz Sexy

9/28/15. HH

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-man-who-made-jazz-sexy-1443128194

Stop Googling. Let's Talk.

9/28/15. An MIT Professor weighs in on the lost art of conversation.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

The Art of Witness

9/25/15. The complete works of Primo Levi.


http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/28/the-art-of-witness

How Music Heals the Troubled Soul

9/24/15. Music is a bath for the soul.




http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-music-soothes-the-troubled-soul-1443042660

The 50 Greatest Yogi Berra Quotes RIP

9/24/15. Wisdom


http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/09/the-50-greatest-yogi-berra-quotes

Joseph Epstein has written for COMMENTARY for fifty years

9/20/15. Archives.

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/author/joseph-epstein/

Alan Dershowitz's History of Jewish Lawyers

9/20/15. He lived two doors down from Jackie Mason, near Buddy Hackett, and in Woody Allen's neighborhood. 

Jewish humor is essential for coping with anxiety, absurdity, suffering, horror, and much more.

Four Europeans go hiking together and get terribly lost.

First they run out of food, then out of water.

"I'm so thirsty, " says the Englishman. "I must have tea."

"I'm so thirsty," says the Frenchman, I must have wine."

"I'm so thirsty," says the German. "I must have beer."

"I'm so thirsty," says the Jew. "I must have diabetes."

No less than Freud expressed his wonder at Jewish joking:

"I do not know whether there are many other instances of a people making fun to such a degree of its own character."


http://www.wsj.com/articles/alan-dershowitzs-history-of-jewish-lawyers-1442587805