This commentary was originally posted 9/15/15. I am reposting it because of the airing of the HBO Movie, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks starring Oprah Winfrey, on April 23, 2017. ——- How does an award winning book that reads like a detective story and an exposes racial and ethical issues in medicine in the US – […]
You’ve heard the joke. What’s going to survive a nuclear holocaust? Answer: Rats and Twinkies. Twinkies aside, there’s no arguing through all recorded history rats have been wherever humans have been. Bringing with them public revulsion, disease and public outrage. In modern times urban residents in poorer neighborhoods and especially […]
I received an email recently Helen Seagle, Clinical Nutrition Manager, Children’s Hospital Colorado in which she raises a question that’s really got me thinking. Helen questions how we all liberally use the term “healthy” in kids material. Healthy food, healthy choices, health snacks….. She asks – “does healthiness equal “nutritiousness”? Unless something is toxic can’t […]
MD Anderson Sells Clinical Trials as Lifesaving Options In a past series of blog posts on this site we’ve focused in on MD Anderson’s aggressive framing of both cancer and clinical trials. Their take-no-prisoners, in-your-face declaration that cancer is on the run and they’re hell bent to “make cancer history.” Back in 2015 the Psychologist, […]
Today’s Blog Written by Ryan Schaars, Hunter College Darmok Season 5, Episode 2 https://vimeo.com/9172863 The second episode of the fifth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Darmok, provides and interesting example of communication and metaphor. I suggest watching the entire episode as it is very good, however, for the sake of space I would […]
Contributor: Emilie – Hunter College, CUNY At the third and final debate in Las Vegas tonight, Trump proved his incompetence in front of the nation. Aside from proving that he has no clear ideas on policy or how to run this country, he also demonstrated (unfortunately, not for the final time) that he is a […]
This blogpost written by: Jon Schwoerer, Hunter College, CUNY Some notes on the debate ( Town Hall Oct 9 2016) – Trump’s extreme misogyny is really on show here. Whenever Clinton spoke, Trump stood right behind her and/or paced back and forth. However, while Clinton often moved around herself and gestured to the audience when she […]
If you have any wonderful examples of Trumpisms please send them along Particularly interested to see if anybody has any example of him being humble or self effacing.
Contributing Blogger Paul MelasHunter College, CUNY 9/22/16 What follows is a discussion prompted by a Radiolab podcast[1]concerning language and words, listened to for a graduate level Linguistics course. The podcast includes the story of Jill Bolte Taylor, a woman who suffered a stroke and found herself with “absolutely no language” and no memories. All references to […]
Yesterday, about the Chelsea bombing, I heard a TV journalist say – and it seemed to roll off his tongue: “They haven’t determined terroristic motives” “Terroristic motives”. I stumbled on the phrase. On this blog we’ve been discussing the wordplay being used by journalists, officials and even us and our fellow New Yorkers – the dilemma, to […]
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