Book Review: My Life with the Eskimo

Book Review: My Life in Court

Book Review: Speechless. My Recovery from Stroke

“When I read a new word-that is one I knew before the strokeI knew what it meant intuitively. But although the new word was not lost it was not available to me. Concepts... would fade away like moonshine the moment I tried to pin them down with speech. It was a sensation so fleeting that I hardly knew it was there. The lack of speech ate right into my dealings with the outside world. It made me...

My life with NF1.

My life with hurricanes.

About the author: I am currently working on the Gulf Coast in the division of general pediatrics at the University of TexasMedical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston. In the 1970s I attended medical school at Louisiana State University in New Orleans. After that I went to UTMB for my general pediatrics residency. I practiced general pediatrics in Longview, Texas, for 32 years afterward. I served as pre...

Book Review: “Introduction to Artificial Life”

Despite the popularity of artificial life over the last 15 years or so, as witnessed by the establishment of several international conferences on the subject and the birth of the Artificial Life Journal and similar publications, there has been a conspicuous lack of decent introductory texts on the subject. Notable exceptions include “Artificial Life: An Introduction” (Langton 1995), an eclectic...