“The spirit of engaged commitment we ask of our patients during their eight weeks MBSR (mindfulness based stress reduction) is similar to that required in athletic training. The athlete who is training for a particular event doesn’t practice only when he or she feels like it-for instance only when the weather is nice, or thereContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Commitment to Mindfulness”
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Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Open plan offices
“Open plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated and insecure. Open plan workers are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure and elevated stress levels and to get the flu; they argue more with their colleagues; they worryContinue reading “Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Open plan offices”
“His Name is Ray”: Desperation an Understatement
Michael Del Monte followed Toronto based panhandler Ray originally from PEI but now a panhandler on Lakeshore Boulevard in Toronto. He goes from car to car hoping for handouts to fund his heroin addiction. Del Monte noticed him on his drive home and he was invited by Ray to follow him for 8 months single-handedly.Continue reading ““His Name is Ray”: Desperation an Understatement”
10 Steps We Can Take to Never Have a Year Like 2020: # 9 Restructure our cities
Again the Quebec magazine L’actualitê has an interesting feature article in its April edition dealing with COVID-19 and translated it means what are the steps we can take to ensure we don’t have a year like 2020? Christian Savard the director general of “Vivre en Ville” said that it was not only Montreal green spotsContinue reading “10 Steps We Can Take to Never Have a Year Like 2020: # 9 Restructure our cities”
10 Steps We Can Take to Never Have a Year Like 2020: # 8 Facilitate Access to Nature
Again the Quebec magazine L’actualitê has an interesting feature article in its April edition dealing with COVID-19 and translated it means what are the steps we can take to ensure we don’t have a year like 2020? The eighth step is to have better access to nature. The article mentions how Quebeckers were elbowing forContinue reading “10 Steps We Can Take to Never Have a Year Like 2020: # 8 Facilitate Access to Nature”
Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: The creative advantage of introverts
“But there’s a less obvious yet surprisingly powerful explanation for introverts’ creative advantage-an explanation that everyone can learn from: introverts prefer to work independently and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation. As the influential psychologist Hans Eysenck once observed, introversion “concentrates the mind on tasks at hand, and prevents the dissipation of energy onContinue reading “Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: The creative advantage of introverts”
Passage of the Day from “The Heptameron” by Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549)
“And we, who are all of good birth, ought to die of shame at the thought that our hearts may be tinged with worldly feelings, even a poor mule-driver’s wife does not fear to face was a most cruel death. Can any women regard herself as virtuous unless she has, like this woman, resisted toContinue reading “Passage of the Day from “The Heptameron” by Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549)”
New York State Poised to Legalize “adult use” Cannabis
Legislation (S.854-A/A.1248-A) Would Establish the Office of Cannabis Management; Expand New York’s Existing Medical Marijuana Program; Establish a Licensing System; and Create a Social and Economic Equity Program Encouraging Individuals Disproportionately Impacted by Cannabis Enforcement to Participate in Industry Tax Collection Projected to Reach $350 Million Annually and Potentially Create 30,000 to 60,000 Jobs GovernorContinue reading “New York State Poised to Legalize “adult use” Cannabis”
The Slaughterhouse Killer”: Horror Genre and Revenge Film Genre
This Australian film was sent to me as a movie in the “horror” genre. If horror means you are horrified by what you watched well “The Slaughterhouse Killer” is a horror film. But if there is such a genre as a “revenge film” this would partially fit into that category. It also pulls some moralContinue reading “The Slaughterhouse Killer”: Horror Genre and Revenge Film Genre”
COVID-19 RNA Based Vaccines and the Risk of Prion Disease
Classen Immunotherapies, Inc., 3637 Rockdale Road, Manchester,MD 21102, E-mail: classen@vaccines.net.J. Bart Classen, MD*Citation: Classen JB. COVID-19 RNA Based Vaccines and the Risk of Prion Disease. Microbiol Infect Dis. 2021; 5(1): 1-3.Research ArticleABSTRACTDevelopment of new vaccine technology has been plagued with problems in the past. The current RNA based SARSCoV-2 vaccines were approved in the USContinue reading “COVID-19 RNA Based Vaccines and the Risk of Prion Disease”
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