Healthy Curiousity

Generally I prefer to stay away from debates about climate change. I try to perceive the issue in an ecological setting rather than some arg...

Hope springs eternal, except when you're dead. (With no Arrow of Time is one eternally dead or eternally alive? Or am I in a box and if ...

My friend in New York sent me a link addressing the work of Alan Snyder who for many years has been arguing that within all of us reside ...

Who are these dinosaurs who think they can determine the true measure of intelligence? At the Sydney Writers' Festival one of Australia...

This post is very long (3850 words) and very difficult. It is a preliminary investigation of the idea that depression arises from chronic su...

It all began way back in the 19th century. " Sickness Behavior"  was observed in humans and farm animals. As that Wiki article goe...

Recently some people told me about how an Italian cardiologist is making a big fuss out of the fact that when he removes a tumour he finds f...

Given the massive amount of research in biomedicine it is tempting to think that we are now in the process of completing the picture of biol...

Days of strange co-incidences. Today a friend in the USA sent me a fascinating little article from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Basi...

History of Madness Michel Foucault Routledge 2006 At the start of this text is a recommendation by R. D. Laing, a founder of the ant...