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The Ganzfeldt

It was 1971, I think. I was working at the newly established UT School of Public Health in Houston. Mine was an IT job. And […]

FRAPs

No, it isn’t a refreshing new beverage from Starbucks or McDonalds. FRAPs are Frenetic Random Activity Periods. Yesterday, I learned about FRAPs for the first […]

Precedents

I say that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. In the Dobbs decision, Samuel Alito cleverly dispensed with the precedent […]

Passing Notes

Her given name may have been Mary or Ruth or maybe Jane; I do not remember. I recall only that her surname was Cox. She […]

Social Interactions

I’m an introvert who has, after decades of practice, learned to imitate extrovert behaviors. Most of us can do both, but we each have a […]

Otro Menudo

I’m going to make beef fajitas for dinner, and I decided this morning that we needed to hit our favorite little Mexican restaurant before the […]

Tonight in Ramen Porn

Some of my dinner inspirations come from TV food programs. Others come from articles. Still others are brain farts. Tonight’s culinary experiment stems from a […]

This Week in Viruses

If you follow these posts, you know that I usually title them This Week in COVID. While the COVID pandemic continues to dominate the virus […]

Rubbernecking

Something that drives me batty about the 24-hour cable news cycle is the repetition on the news channels. The only thing that is worse is […]

Sentience

I subscribe to Ted Talks, and last week I received a notice for a talk on the nature of consciousness. I’m not a neurobiologist, but […]