Is love good medicine? When it comes to maintaining health, how does love compare to hygiene or diet? In “The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine,” author Anne Harrington provides some interesting answers. In her chapter, “Healing Ties,” she highlights the famous 1945 studies of psychiatrist Rene Spitz whose data proved love to be […]
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For those who dare to be different
According to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, Israel’s Dan Shechtman knows how difficult it can be to think differently from a consensus of scientists. In 1982, Shechtman discovered the patterned but nonrepeating atomic structures of quasicrystals. Members of the scientific community ridiculed Schectman, calling his discovery nonsense, a physical impossibility and denouncing […]
Prohibition’s Roy Olmstead: The Man Who No Longer Exists
Did you catch the PBS series on Prohibition this week? As the “King of the Puget Sound Bootleggers,” Seattle’s legendary Roy Olmstead made an appearance in the second episode of the three-part series. I’m writing to add more to his story after he was arrested and convicted of bootlegging. When Olmstead was sent to prison […]