If you’re anything like me (and let’s hope for your sakes you’re not), being aware really takes a lot out of you. With ‘aware’ having synonyms like ‘cognizant,’ ‘mindful,’ ‘wide-awake,’ ‘vigilant,’ and ‘wary’ (I took ‘conscious’ alright–I’m pretty sure…
Let’s just say I’m a slow starter.
I mean, I think I ate solid foods on time and all that – but when it came to riding a bike, four, five, and six passed me by before there was any success on a two-wheeler.
The lovely sound of ‘teen’ at the end of my age…
Yup, it’s May, and, therefore, thanks to House Resolution #1005, passed 4/1/08, it’s also Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month. [If you’re into politics, or are just plain curious, the House passed the Resolution by a vote of 414-0—for…
I’m an Apple girl, through and through, dedicated to my trifecta of a Macbook Pro, an iPhone 5, and an iPad [not yet a mini, but you can’t have everything. (I really mean you can’t have everything the second it comes out, but it sounded better the…
Linda Logan married her high school sweetheart. She is a mother of 3 children, a Ph.D. in geography, a former co-teacher at M.I.T.
And she suffers from bipolar disorder–badly. It has ravaged her life.
But she has come back to talk about it in a fresh…
Frankly, I’m anxious.
I spent a good amount of time trying to think of a way to put it that involved less brutal honesty, perhaps some more word craft–a bit of extra verbiage that might distract from such an unplesant truth.
But, ‘sometimes I worry’ was…
Recall in Part I that, although Pfizer’s angina treatment did little for the chest pain, it changed multiple thousands of lives in the bedroom when the scientists reincarnated it as Viagra. And date rape drug ketamine earned itself some points from ‘the…
Every so often, the drug that scientists are certain will serve one purpose in fact serves a completely different one. Take scientists for Pfizer’s research center who developed an angina treatment that they gave to their subjects, who had very little of…
Look, it’s not like I have anything against the crystal ball. In fact, I use the exquisite glasses my mother left me for the holiday of Passover, and they happen to be crystal. But I’m just a wee bit skeptical about its powers to predict how many more…
“Up All Night” by Elizabeth Holbert, a nice piece in the March 11 New Yorker, reprises the research of Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, an anthropologist with an alternate model to our 11pm to 7am “ideal sleep schedule.”
In The Slumbering Masses” Wolf-Meyer looks…
