Robert K Stephen (CSW)

What should we think of vaccine pauses?

What to Make of Vaccine Pauses A cautious, transparent response reveals a process committed to vaccine safety. Q&A WITH DANIEL SALMON | APRIL 15, 2021 Facebook Twitter Linked In Email Pinterest https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18394544/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/fb5600/ Public Health On Call This conversation is an updated excerpt from the March 22 episode of Public Health On Call, in which Salmon spoke with Stephanie Desmon about theContinue reading “What should we think of vaccine pauses?”

Jon Kabat-Zinn “Full Catastrophe Living”: Thinking during meditation

“Thinking is not bad, nor is it even undesirable during meditation, What matters is whether you are aware of your thoughts and feelings during meditation and how you are in relationship to them. Trying to supress them will only result in greater tension and frustration and more problems, not in calmness, insight, clarity and peace.Continue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn “Full Catastrophe Living”: Thinking during meditation”

Regional STEM Fairs Go Virtual with support of Youth Science Canada

The fair must go on… Twenty-one regional STEM fairs go virtual, April 19 to 21, with the support of Youth Science Canada Students have one last chance to register their projects online; all others are invited to continue their STEM education through project-based learning at mystemspace.ca OTTAWA, April 14, 2021 – Twenty-one regional science fairs will take placeContinue reading “Regional STEM Fairs Go Virtual with support of Youth Science Canada”

How You Frame COVID Determines your Reaction to Public Health Initiatives: Can we say COVID ideology?

April 6, 2021 New Study Casts COVID-19 and Government Mandates in a New Light in Rural America HOW PERSONAL VIEWS ON THE PANDEMIC AFFECT MASK WEARING AND OTHER PREVENTION BEHAVIORS When Adam Koon, PhD, MPH, an assistant scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, arrived in his wife’s hometown last summer to quarantine with theirContinue reading “How You Frame COVID Determines your Reaction to Public Health Initiatives: Can we say COVID ideology?”

United States Puts Hold of J&J Vaccine

Joint CDC and FDA Statement on Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine The following statement is attributed to Dr. Anne Schuchat, Principal Deputy Director of the CDC and Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and ResearchEspañol (Spanish)Media Statement For Immediate Release: Tuesday, April 13, 2021Contact: Media Relations(404) 639-3286 As of April 12,Continue reading “United States Puts Hold of J&J Vaccine”

Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: thoughts during meditation

“During meditation, we intentionally treat all our thoughts as if they are of equal value. As best we can, and with the lightest touches, we bring awareness to them when they arise, and then intentionally return our attention to the breath as the primary focus of our attention, regardless of the thought and the emotionalContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: thoughts during meditation”

Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Time for a “Free Trait Agreement?: A deal between introverts and extroverts?

A Free Trait Agreement acknowledges that we’ll each act of character some of the time-in exchange for being ourselves the rest of the time. It’s a Free Trait Agreement when a wife wants to go out every Saturday night and a husband who wants to relax work out a schedule: half the time we’ll goContinue reading “Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Time for a “Free Trait Agreement?: A deal between introverts and extroverts?”

Passage of The Day: Marguerite de Navarre “The Heptameron”: More on Love

“ ‘ I believe” said Nomerfide, ‘ that if one loves perfectly. With a love rooted in God’s commandments, then one will not experience humiliation or dishonour, provided one does not go astray and fall from the perfection of one’s love. For the glory of loving truly knows no shame. And although her body wasContinue reading “Passage of The Day: Marguerite de Navarre “The Heptameron”: More on Love”

A Couple from Côtes-Du-Rhone

The first one is a Plan de Dieu From Rémy Ferbras. It is a classic GSM blend, namely Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. Its nose is full of raspberry, blackberry and that Grenache telltale very ripe local strawberries not the wooden kind we receive here in Canada from California. On the palate broad based by mildContinue reading “A Couple from Côtes-Du-Rhone”

“Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 40 “The Greek Gods Descend into Irrelevance”

The jolt of landing in the Zortixian spacecraft woke the napping of Montenez. Back home to the island of Samos in Greece. Back home to humanity as squalid as it may be. The month of May saw a light crowd of tourists but Montenez knew that would change as the Northern “Palefaces” as his NorthContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 40 “The Greek Gods Descend into Irrelevance””