Facing Our Frustration

Facing Our Demons: Psychiatric Perspectives on Exorcism Rituals

Facing our morality: the virtue of a common life.

Last week I admitted Mr. M in the predawn hours of an evolving M.I. I had forgotten his name. Erased the particulars of our prickly past until we came face to face the behind closed curtains of an emergency room bay. Through sleep-deprived eyes and the apparition of a pachyderm poised on my patient’s chest, I saw clearly what the years had hidden. Thankfully, there was business to conduct, orde...

Mars can wait: facing the challenges of our civilization.

We are overwhelmed by warnings about inevitable geophysical and human problems. Earth is beset by escalating, manmade, environmental crises and our exploding population will eventually lack water, food and vital materials. This suggests, together with increasing poverty, deepening social unrest and advanced techniques for mass killing, that civilization will break down long before atmospheric C...

Geometrical Frustration

© 2006 American Institute of Physics, S-0031-9228-0602-010-2 T ancient Greeks were aware of the phenomenon of magnetic order in lodestone, a type of rock containing the ferromagnet magnetite Fe3O4. Magnetic moments in a ferromagnet tend to align and thereby sum to an easily observed macroscopic magnetic moment. The absence of such a moment even in ordered antiferromagnets is the reason their di...

Disentitlement? The Threats Facing Our Public Health-Care Programs and a Rights-Based Response.

This book is about health care entitlements in the US-and about the threat of disentitlement. It describes the history and legal character of our Medicare and Medicaid programs, and of the tax subsidies that have brought health insurance to most working Americans. It examines the thread that our entitlements face from privatization, individualism, and devolution. It considers the models that ot...