The first thing the doctors attempted was to break all my father’s toes and stick metal pins through them to straighten them out. This caused my father immense agony but did nothing to improve his condition. In fact, therewasno cure, not via modern medicine at least, and his walking deg...
Much of this progress stems from the Enlightenment.%We write this text in November 2020, so it is difficult to detach from the US’s actual epidemics and political uncertainties. Still, looking at things from an historical perspective,The gross world product (GWP) has grown with a dramatic ...
A rigorous debate on freedom and what it is did not fully blossom until the Enlightenment when the thinkers of the time made clearer both the nature of freedomYet efforts to measure freedom have only emerged in the last quarter century or so. Unfortunately, these efforts have been flawed: ...
A brief interview withSabrina Ebbersmeyerabout the Women in the Nordic Enlightenment project (WHENCE). This was paired with little blurbs about three women philosophers in particular, but the only one I remember now isBirgitte Thott. A longer article about the legacy of Jack the Ripper, which ...
But I will start with a meal we talked and laughed about on our last meeting (a few days before he passed away): our Lunch atPierre Koffmann’s La Tante Clairein Royal Hospital Rd. Chelsea. All the way to the restaurant I did not stop talking about The signature dish of the restauran...
Less noted but equally more significant, the man and women [JY](6)___ who formed families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced [JY](7)___ the divorce rate after a postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to a greater extent than did that of couples who married in earlier [JY...
RAY TWO: YELLOW RAY OF ENLIGHTENMENT – LOVE– WISDOM Day of Honor:Sunday Chakra:Crown Angel of the Second Ray:Archangel Jophiel Elohim of the Second Ray:Apollo Apollo’s Divine Complement:Lady Lumina Chohan of the Second Ray:Ascended Master Lord Lanto ...
Sitting at a beautiful seaside place for some udon, Dong-baek thanks Yong-shik for what he did at the Camellia. When he asks if she really saw the Joker, she tells him that she’d only seen a glimpse from behind. She confesses that she was the one who had begged Chief Byun to keep...
like climbing machine. Instead, Puccio was surprisingly human. She did warm up on the hardest problems in the gym, but she would also get frustrated at times. She complained when Justen made her jump rope. I wondered, why does one of the strongest climbers in the world even need a coach...
This year I resolved to do the usual things: lose weight; step up the exercise; no more eating potato chips (I even did the farewell ritual recommended by certain therapists: “I love you very much, fried salty things, but I can’t have you in my life anymore”). I did, however,...