Hamlet
Hamlet a limerick shared by Mel Gibson There once was a prince like no other whose father was killed by his brother his sister went mad when they murdered her dad and his cousin then poisoned his mother.
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Who’s Pushing Everyone In?
When I switched my college major from engineering to clinical psychology, I was fortunate to have a new next-door neighbor, Al, who was a graduate student in clinical psychology. He was in the final months of an eleven-year saga to his PhD. One day I asked him what the difference…
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“Who is John Galt?”
This famous opening line from Ayn Rand’s best selling novel Atlas Shrugged comes to mind every time a new tragedy explodes on the scene and people ask “Why?” I am now convinced that before they ask the question, they have already decided that the answer is either nonexistent or at…
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Life on the Less-traveled Road
Albert Einstein is alleged to have said, “Great spirits have always encountered violent oppostion from mediocre minds.” Over forty years before I read that, I expressed a similar observation at a deeply personal level in this poem: In dead of night I skulk about my secret to pursue. This lonly…
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There’s No Such Thing as Failure
“Perspective: use it or lose it.” Richard Bach, “Illusions” It is always a matter of perspective. Perception, if you like. But what it really comes down to is that anything that can be called a failure, can just as easily be called a success if you stand in the right…
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The Black Bag Gang
(A short story by Ned B. Johnson) Louis Cabrillo was a world class slob and proud of it. He had spent his entire adult life perfecting the art of slovenliness and his time had not been wasted. He had never owned a vacuum cleaner, nor mop, nor broom. His uninterrupted…
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Lessons in the Art of the Gesture
When a college freshman, I had never taken a course in public speaking or debate. I decided it was time to correct that missing element of my education. So I enrolled in Speech 101 (or whatever it was called). I don’t know exactly what I expected, but whatever it was,…
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Antioxidants: Myth or Malignance
In my post here, “The Parallax View of Thrill Seekers,” I cast light on the prejudice of scientists to intepret experimental and observational data to infer causal relationships where none are indicated. Today I read one of the few highly-visible examples of both that propensity, and its polar opposite. In…
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The Parallax View of Thrill Seekers
In an article in New Scientist magazine, neurobiologist David McCobb, of Cornell University, says he has found evidence linking a preference for extreme sports to a pair of proteins in the adrenal gland. Adrenaline is secreted by the adrenal gland through tiny channels made up of two types of protein…
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Rules Of Engagement
Full and effective communication is the most important single factor in any human interaction. This is especially true in a loving relationship. It is easy to overlook the fact that the information that is being communicated, even non-verbally, does not tell the whole story. Nor is it necessarily the most…