Jozef Imrich, name worthy of Kafka, has his finger on the pulse of any irony of interest and shares his findings to keep you in-the-know with the savviest trend setters and infomaniacs.
''I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.''
-Kurt Vonnegut
Fast Healer: Dr Mark Muhlmann - Kindness is the Best Medicine
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
Coffee is second only to tea as the world's most popular beverage. Many of you may have a cup in your hand when reading this and will be sorry to hear that a study announced this week, co-funded by the British Heart Foundation and conducted by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, found that even drinking up to 25 cups of coffee a day was no more likely to cause stiffening of arteries than not drinking any coffee at all.
Good news! But not much new news. Perhaps, because we drink so much of it, coffee has been the subject of a huge number of studies on its effect on our health. Coffee proves not to cause cancer, incontinence, brittle bones, dehydration, gallstones, liver damage, dementia or even
A new book makes a strong argument for doctors who are kind and warm ... are kind have healthier patients who heal faster, according to new book ... In your book, you show that compassion can increase patients' ... lifestyle - inspired-life ... hat tip BC
The closures of hospitals such as Prince Henry just illustrates how short sighted many of our politicians were, are and continue to be ... Many people recalled how short sighted we were about the closures of schools in 1980s and 1990s. It is almost as if local state and federal government never talk to each other ... Or if they do spin stories it reflects more Public Relation talk fests ...
Critically ill patients needing treatment within 10 minutes have instead waited over an hour for treatment at a major Sydney hospital emergency department.
by Kate Aubusson
Why Writing Better Will Make You a Better Person Consider George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas", great philosophical SF movies like The Matrix and Her, great philosophical TV shows likeStar Trek: The Next Generation or Black Mirror. All of them imagine a way the world could be, or a helpfully simplified and cartooned world with certain aspects exaggerated, and they challenge us to think better about fundamental questions of human value and the human condition -- and they do so in a way that no abstract essay could.
Today in my upper-division class Philosophy of Mind I will teach Star Trek: The Next Generation's episode on whether the robot Data deserves human rights, alongside expository prose by John Searle and Daniel Dennett's famous philosophical story "Where Am I?". Terrific philosophy, all -- one no less than the others.
