but there's another, much smaller isle located in the East River—between two other boroughs, the Bronx and Queens—that has a fascinating but little-known history. It's calledNorth Brother Island, and it's infamous for its most famous former resident, "Typhoid Mary," who for a time was...
The sandstone formations atMedicine Rocks State Parkmay look a bit like Swiss cheese because of how they've eroded over time, but these pillars are more than a geological oddity. They also provided a canvas for Native Americans dating hundreds of years back—many of whom were part of hunting...
The 76-year-old Winikoff posed as a gynecologist and managed to dupe several women into letting him examine them. That’s creepy enough, but the fact that he went door-to-door doing it puts this case squarely in the stratosphere of weird. He molested one woman, then fled when she...
(so if you take one pill a day, I can only prescribe you a single blister. Here we don’t have bottles, but blisters), and while I’m writing the prescription Karen casually mention that she was insomniac, and while cleaning the medicine cabinet she realise she was down to her last ...
His work in the Marshall Islands and elsewhere in Micronesia closely examine notions of place in Micronesia, the Pacific Islands, and indeed the Marshallese's tumultuous relationship with the United States. Dr. McArthur has spent much of his career documenting and analyzing Marshallese narratives, ...
her writings force us to re-examine many of the things that we once took for granted, like our cities, our political and social structures, etc,ursula le guin,she began writing during the 1950s, but not until the 60s did she begin publishing. le guins work has appealed to a wider ...
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Never occurred to me … I made my way to his room and sat on his bed and told him what I thought he needed to hear. He smiled in a somewhat strange way and said, “Seriously? Why are you telling me this? Mom, don’t you think I figured that out already? Geesh, this is awkwar...
Ken offers a fascinating preview of his upcoming book, The Religion of Tomorrow, where he describes the highest structure of conscious that has yet evolved — the all-pervading, all-embracing stage known as “Supermind” — making this one of the finest meditations on your own highest-possible...
After a career in conventional medicine, he became influenced by Maharishi Maresh Yogi and adopted an approach to medicine based on spirituality and consciousness. Essentially, he views the human body as a whole unit, and by treating the whole, so can a person achieve “perfect health.” He ...