Category: Medicine
Understanding Memories: Lovely Metaphors Belong in Songs, Not Science
I’m reminded of a phrase from one of my favorite songwriters, Paul Simon, in “The Boxer”: “I’ve squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles.”
In Bioethics, Infanticide Is Now “Debatable”
The late Richard John Neuhaus famously wrote this of bioethicists.
Recalling Nana’s Face: Does Your Brain Store Memories?
Consider a hypothetical "engram" of your grandmother’s lovely face that "codes" for your memory of her appearance.
Time for Commercially Assisted Suicide?
Human logic goes where our first principles and fundamental premises take it.
One More Thing to Be Thankful For: Animal Research Points to Pain "Off Switch"
The tremendous potential human (and animal) good that could be derived from this research to treat pain justifies the suffering caused to the animals.