tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62779840981533551932024-03-12T23:00:05.096-05:00BioethicsPHIL 3345. Supporting the philosophical study of bioethics, bio-medical ethics, biotechnology, and the future of life, at Middle Tennessee State University and beyond... "Keep your health, your splendid health. It is better than all the truths under the firmament." William JamesPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.comBlogger1499125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-84225310159770872262024-03-12T05:58:00.001-05:002024-03-12T05:58:42.618-05:00“deliberately exposed to radiation”<div dir="ltr">'Oppenheimer,' My Uncle and the Secrets America Still Doesn't Like to Tell</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 19.125px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">…"Oppenheimer" is a movie about a singular genius, an extraordinary collaboration and a turning point in history. But it's also a lesson in applied physics: the way a lone catalyst may trigger a chain reaction whose impact cannot be predicted or controlled. J. Robert Oppenheimer's greatest triumph set into motion forces that brought about his downfall. An innovation designed to make the world safer in the long term made it </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/04/opinion/nuclear-weapons-nytimes.html" title="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 19.125px; line-height: inherit; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891);">manifestly more dangerous</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 19.125px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. And in subsequent atomic tests through the postwar years, many Americans were deliberately exposed to radiation, to see what the blast and its aftermath would do to them...</span><br><br>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/opinion/oppenheimer-secret-lives.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-37171732574085558912024-03-12T05:38:00.001-05:002024-03-12T05:38:27.145-05:00Pandemic lessons not learned It has been four years since the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
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<br>In 2022 Ed Yong wrote that the U.S. "made none of the broad changes that would protect its population against future pathogens, such as better ventilation or universal paid sick leave." He predicted that America will "continue to struggle against infectious diseases in part because some of its most deeply held values are antithetical to the task of besting a virus."
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<br><a href="https://www.threads.net/@theatlantic/post/C4YzdRnRMYY/?xmt=AQGzVL8uXjPeUw92cc_xOhRNVYs1mCOg0E7vTYMC4LycRg">https://www.threads.net/@theatlantic/post/C4YzdRnRMYY/?xmt=AQGzVL8uXjPeUw92cc_xOhRNVYs1mCOg0E7vTYMC4LycRg</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-66546416046459256222024-03-11T09:06:00.001-05:002024-03-11T09:06:05.132-05:00‘Fantastic Voyage’-ish A.I.<style>@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}</style><font face="Calibri"><p dir=ltr>A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive </p> <p dir=ltr>Given troves of data about genes and cells, A.I. models have made some surprising discoveries. What could they teach us someday?</p> <div align="left" ><p dir=ltr>...“I think these models are going to help us get some really fundamental understanding of the cell, which is going to provide some insight into what life really is,” Dr. Quake said.<br> </p> </div><p dir=ltr><br> </p> <div align="left" ><p dir=ltr>Having a map of what’s possible and impossible to sustain life might also mean that scientists could actually create new cells that don’t yet exist in nature. The foundation model might be able to concoct chemical recipes that transform ordinary cells into new, extraordinary ones. Those new cells might devour plaque in blood vessels or explore a diseased organ to report back on its condition.<br> </p> </div><p dir=ltr><br> </p> <div align="left" ><p dir=ltr>“It’s very ‘Fantastic Voyage<i>’-</i>ish,” Dr. Quake admitted. “But who knows what the future is going to hold?”</p> <p dir=ltr>..."Professors should be very, very nervous."<br> </p> </div><p dir=ltr><br> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/10/science/ai-learning-biology.html?smid=em-share</p> </font>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-82272868571633552482024-01-15T07:51:00.001-06:002024-01-15T07:51:43.718-06:00PortalsBut don't underrate the value of being healthy. Things did not end well for Virginia.
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<br>"Virginia Woolf on being ill as a portal to self-understanding and a way of breaking through our ordinary waking-state perception" <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/05/06/virginia-woolf-on-being-ill/">https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/05/06/virginia-woolf-on-being-ill/</a>
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<br><a href="https://www.threads.net/@mariapopova/post/C2GY6ohxDni/">https://www.threads.net/@mariapopova/post/C2GY6ohxDni/</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-14413451711513206272024-01-11T05:41:00.000-06:002024-01-11T06:37:08.435-06:00Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older – The Marginalian<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-bbde79e9-f849-d011-db54-304450d55a4f" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">Today, and for the next few weeks, my wife is chronologically older than me. She might need to hear what Maria Popova and Simone de Beauvoir say about time's arrow… (And happy birthday to WJ, 182 today.)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-bbde79e9-f849-d011-db54-304450d55a4f" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-bbde79e9-f849-d011-db54-304450d55a4f" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">…</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to grow old at all is a tremendous privilege — one withheld from the vast majority of humans populating the history of our young species (to say nothing of the </span><a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/07/25/richard-dawkins-death/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(195, 55, 55); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">infinite potential humans who never chanced into existing</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.92; margin-top: 15pt; margin-bottom: 34pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"…</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning — devotion to individuals, to groups or to causes, social, political, intellectual or creative work… In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves. One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, compassion." Simone de Beauvoir </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 2.19; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Complement with Bertrand Russell on </span><a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/07/03/how-to-grow-old-bertrand-russell/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(195, 55, 55); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">how to grow old</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Thoreau on </span><a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/26/thoreau-on-growing-old/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(195, 55, 55); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the greatest gift of the winter years</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, then revisit Simone de Beauvoir on </span><a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/01/25/simone-de-beauvoir-optimism-pessimism-hoipe/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(195, 55, 55); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the ultimate frontier of hope</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/03/02/simone-de-beauvoir-past-present-artist/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(195, 55, 55); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the artist's task to liberate the present from the past</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/31/simone-de-beauvoir-coming-of-age/</span></p>https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/31/simone-de-beauvoir-coming-of-age/</div><div dir="ltr"></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-43460632744800776012024-01-08T06:52:00.000-06:002024-01-08T09:21:24.819-06:00Stephen Hawking happy When asked about living with [ALS, Lou Gehrig's ] disease, he told an interviewer that he was "happier now" than before he became ill. "Before, I was very bored with life. I drank a fair bit, I guess; I didn't do any work . . .When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything that one does have."
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<br><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thewritersalmanac/p/the-writers-almanac-from-monday-january-645?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post">https://open.substack.com/pub/thewritersalmanac/p/the-writers-almanac-from-monday-january-645?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-89829749858801486282023-12-22T05:35:00.000-06:002023-12-22T05:36:03.323-06:00Thank goodness<style>@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}</style><font face="Calibri"><p dir=ltr>I'm reading Daniel Dennett's memoir "I've Been Thinking", which begins with the near-death experience that generated my favorite written testimonial of natural gratitude. </p> <p dir=ltr>"ON OCTOBER 24, 2006, I WAS RUSHED BY AMBULANCE from my office at Tufts University to the emergency room at Lahey Clinic, where doctors discovered the problem: the inner and outer layers of my aorta had come apart—an aortic dissection—and I could die at any moment if the blood from my heart burst out into my chest cavity. The day before I had been in Mackerel Cove on Swan’s Island in Maine on my sailboat, Xanthippe. This was the last cruise of the season, joined by my Swedish friend Bo Dahlbom and his son Fredrik, and as I slowly pulled on the heavy anchor line I felt a slight pain in my chest, reminding me of the pain I had felt seven years earlier when I’d had a “silent heart attack” that had led to a triple-bypass operation. We sailed back to Blue Hill in a stiff headwind, moored the boat, took off the heavy sails, put the inflatable dinghy on the roof of my car, and went back to the farm, before I made a quick trip to the local hospital, where I was told I had not had a heart attack but should see my cardiologist as soon as I could. The next day we drove to Tufts, where I asked the department secretary if she had any Tylenol, and she wisely called the ambulance instead. </p> <p dir=ltr>One of the little-known side effects of open-heart surgery is ministrokes caused by debris from the operation clogging up the capillaries in the brain, and my cardiologist explicitly warned the surgical team that since my mind was my life, they should strive to avoid turning me into a “pumphead”—the ugly term heart surgeons use in private for those whose brains are damaged by the heart-lung machine. After the operation, before they removed me from the machine, they reversed the flow of blood to my brain, sending it into the veins and out of the arteries, hoping to flush out any debris that was about to disable my res cogitans, my thinking thing (my brain, not, as Descartes would have it, a distinct and immaterial substance). So I’ve been brainwashed, quite literally. Did it work? As soon as I could sit up in my hospital bed after the operation I got out my trusty laptop and wrote a short piece to see if I still had my marbles. It was put on Edge.org, where it attracted a lot of attention. What do you think? </p> <p dir=ltr>Thank Goodness! (November 2, 2006) </p> <p dir=ltr>There are no atheists in foxholes, according to an old but dubious saying, and there is at least a little anecdotal evidence in favor of it in the notorious cases of famous atheists who have emerged from near-death experiences to announce to the world that they have changed their minds. The British philosopher Sir A. J. Ayer, who died in 1989, is a fairly recent example. Here is another anecdote to ponder..."</p> <p dir=ltr>Continues: https://a.co/982hZQy</p> </font>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-45982633228090858322023-12-21T06:01:00.001-06:002023-12-21T06:01:52.699-06:00“My Year of Being Very Online About Dogs”<div dir="ltr">My friend Daryl's friend and former colleague at W.Carolina, on dogs and the culture wars. What a strange world, dogs' AND ours…</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="css-k964ob" style="margin: 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: inherit; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px); max-width: 600px; caret-color: rgb(9, 9, 9); color: rgb(9, 9, 9);"><p class="css-1il0jfh evys1bk0" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.78125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5625rem; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">Dogs are where we project our "fantasies about what we want — either who we want to be or what we want the world to look like," said Katharine Mershon, a professor of religion and philosophy at Western Carolina University who studies the role of dogs in American society.</p></div><div class="css-k964ob" style="margin: 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: inherit; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px); max-width: 600px; caret-color: rgb(9, 9, 9); color: rgb(9, 9, 9);"><p class="css-1il0jfh evys1bk0" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.78125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5625rem; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">Dr. Mershon told me how dogs had become a focal point for tensions in her rural Appalachian town: Her local NextDoor was filled with arguments about whether leaving hunting dogs to roam about freely, slightly underfed and living mostly outside, constituted abuse. This was an argument, ostensibly about dogs, that was actually about gentrification and the place of newcomers to impose their values on local life.</p></div><div class="css-k964ob" style="margin: 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: inherit; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px); max-width: 600px; caret-color: rgb(9, 9, 9); color: rgb(9, 9, 9);"><p class="css-1il0jfh evys1bk0" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.78125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5625rem; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">At points in my conversations with Dr. Gabrielsen and Dr. Mershon, we discussed the poet, philosopher and animal trainer Vicki Hearne. "Dogs are domesticated to, and into, us," Ms. Hearne wrote in her 1986 book "Adam's Task." "And we are domesticated to, and into, them."</p></div></div><div dir="ltr">…</div><div dir="ltr">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/opinion/dogs-culture-wars.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare<br>My Year of Being Very Online About Dogs</div><div dir="ltr"></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-54599407340170154352023-12-07T09:43:00.001-06:002023-12-07T09:43:18.283-06:00What is life?<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">We don't really know, Jaime Green writes.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">"Hold a rock next to a flower and you're probably confident you know the difference," Green writes. "But since the days of Aristotle, scientists and philosophers have struggled to draw a precise line between what is living and what is not, often returning to criteria such as self-organization, metabolism, and reproduction but never finding a definition that includes, and excludes, all the right things." https://theatln.tc/auxkhAiW</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">https://www.threads.net/@theatlantic/post/C0fFMQlxW6Z/</div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Phil.Oliver@mtsu.edu<div>👣Solvitur ambulando</div><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">💭Sapere aude</span></div></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-69138226130888298462023-12-06T06:02:00.001-06:002023-12-06T06:02:54.652-06:00Poetic ecology and the biology of wonder"The real disconnect is not between our human nature and all the other beings; it is between our image of our nature and our real nature."
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<br><a href="https://www.threads.net/@mariapopova/post/C0ekyxqOV_k/">https://www.threads.net/@mariapopova/post/C0ekyxqOV_k/</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-27189951637906233482023-12-03T05:38:00.001-06:002023-12-03T05:38:43.595-06:00‘Medical Freedom’ Activists Take Aim at New Target: Childhood Vaccine Mandates<div dir="ltr"><div class="css-k964ob" style="margin: 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: inherit; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px); max-width: 600px; caret-color: rgb(9, 9, 9); color: rgb(9, 9, 9);"><p class="css-1il0jfh evys1bk0" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.78125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5625rem; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">For more than 40 years, Mississippi had one of the strictest school vaccination requirements in the nation, and its high childhood immunization rates have been a source of pride. But in July, the state began excusing children from vaccination if their parents cited religious objections, after a federal judge sided with a "medical freedom" group.</p></div><div class="css-k964ob" style="margin: 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: inherit; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px); max-width: 600px; caret-color: rgb(9, 9, 9); color: rgb(9, 9, 9);"><p class="css-1il0jfh evys1bk0" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.78125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5625rem; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">Today, 2,100 Mississippi schoolchildren are officially exempt from vaccination on religious grounds. Five hundred more are exempt because their health precludes vaccination. Dr. Daniel P. Edney, the state health officer, warns that if the total number of exemptions climbs above 3,000, Mississippi will once again face the risk of deadly diseases that are now just a memory.</p></div><div class="css-k964ob" style="margin: 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: inherit; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px); max-width: 600px; caret-color: rgb(9, 9, 9); color: rgb(9, 9, 9);"><p class="css-1il0jfh evys1bk0" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.78125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5625rem; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">"For the last 40 years, our main goal has been to protect those children at highest risk of measles, mumps, rubella, polio," Dr. Edney said in an interview, "and that's those children that have chronic illnesses that make them more vulnerable." He called the ruling "a very bitter pill for me to swallow."</p></div><div class="css-k964ob" style="margin: 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: inherit; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px); max-width: 600px; caret-color: rgb(9, 9, 9); color: rgb(9, 9, 9);"><p class="css-1il0jfh evys1bk0" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.78125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5625rem; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">Mississippi is not an isolated case. Buoyed by their success at overturning coronavirus mandates, medical and religious freedom groups are taking aim at a new target: childhood school vaccine mandates, long considered the foundation of the nation's defense against infectious disease...</p></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/us/politics/mississippi-childhood-vaccine-mandates.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare<br>'Medical Freedom' Activists Take Aim at New Target: Childhood Vaccine Mandates</div><div dir="ltr"></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-54451749498520032292023-12-01T06:32:00.001-06:002023-12-01T06:32:11.070-06:00Exactly How Much Life Is on Earth?<style>@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}</style><font face="Calibri"><p dir=ltr>According to a new study, living cells outnumber stars in the universe, highlighting the deep, underrated link between geophysics and biology.</p> <div align="left" ><p dir=ltr>What’s in a number?<br> </p> </div><p dir=ltr><br> According to a recent calculation by a team of biologists and geologists, there are a more living cells on Earth — a million trillion trillion, or 10^30 in math notation, a 1 followed by 30 zeros — than there are stars in the universe or grains of sand on our planet.</p> <p dir=ltr>Which makes a certain amount of sense. The overwhelming majority of these cells are microbes, too small to see with the unaided eye; a great many are cyanobacteria, the tiny bubbles of energy and chemistry that churn away in plants and in the seas assembling life as we know it and mining sunlight to manufacture the oxygen we need to breathe.</p> <p dir=ltr>Still, it boggled my mind that such a calculation could even be performed. I’ve been pestering astrobiologists lately about what it means. Could Earth harbor even more life? Could it have less? How much life is too much?</p> <p dir=ltr>“The big take-home is this really sets up Earth as a benchmark for comparative planetology,” Peter Crockford, a geobiologist at Carleton University in Ottawa and the lead author of the report, which was <a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)01286-1?et_rid=328163564&et_cid=4945665">published last month in the journal Current Biology</a>, said in an email. The finding “allows us to more quantitatively ask questions about alternative trajectories life could have taken on Earth and how much life could be possible on our planet.”<br> ...</p> <p dir=ltr> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/science/space/earth-biology-life.html?smid=em-share</p> </font>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-49938624142789514562023-11-20T06:22:00.001-06:002023-11-20T06:22:45.496-06:00The Morality of Having Kids in a Burning, Drowning World<div dir="ltr"><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: TNYAdobeCaslonPro, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">"…Your happy childhood is no guarantee of the same for your kid, especially if they will grow up on a planet that will be warmer by nearly three degrees Fahrenheit. But you can reflect on the contributions that your parents made to that happiness and seek to emulate them. You can feel reasonably confident that the secure attachments you formed and the gentle guidance you received in childhood will be passed on like family heirlooms.</p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: TNYAdobeCaslonPro, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">An unhappy childhood provides a trickier data set..."</p><a href="https://flip.it/DZnD6M">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/27/the-quickening-elizabeth-rush-book-review-the-parenthood-dilemma-gina-rushton</a></div><div dir="ltr"></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-58091559003047521022023-11-19T20:01:00.001-06:002023-11-19T20:01:55.403-06:00Climate-sensitive diseases<a href="https://www.threads.net/@climatenewsnow/post/Cz2ZaRGLaTw/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==">https://www.threads.net/@climatenewsnow/post/Cz2ZaRGLaTw/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-23205943933166450782023-11-19T15:08:00.001-06:002023-11-19T15:08:15.643-06:00Just What the (Urgent Care) Doctor Ordered<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/business/urgent-care-doctors-citymd.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/business/urgent-care-doctors-citymd.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a>
<br>Just What the (Urgent Care) Doctor OrderedPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-88312487519751966212023-11-12T12:49:00.001-06:002023-11-12T12:49:11.419-06:00Tough Decisions About Dementia and End-of-Life Care<div dir="ltr">Letters—</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">"…<span style="caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: rgb(54, 54, 54); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 19.125px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Surely the ability to enjoy a mouthful of ice cream is not a meaningful benchmark for continuing the diminished existence his father had clearly feared and rejected?"</span></div><div dir="ltr">…</div><div dir="ltr">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/opinion/dementia-end-of-life-care.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare<br>Tough Decisions About Dementia and End-of-Life Care</div><div dir="ltr"></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-46686699796172871102023-11-01T09:44:00.002-05:002023-11-01T10:08:34.621-05:00Bioethics, SPRING 2024<p></p><div>PHIL 3345, <b>BIOETHICS </b></div><div>Course # 15899, T/Th 4:20 PM, James Union Building (JUB) 202</div><div><br /></div><div><div>3 credit hours. Explores ethical issues arising from the practice of medical therapeutics, from the development of new biomedical technologies, and more largely from reflections on life’s meaning and prospects in the face of changing modalities of intervention fostered particularly by the various life sciences. <b>Dr. Oliver</b></div></div><div><br /></div><i>Supporting the philosophical study of bioethics, bio-medical ethics, biotechnology, and the future of life, at Middle Tennessee State University and beyond... "Keep your health, your splendid health. It is better than all the truths under the firmament." William James --</i><a href="http://bioethjpo.blogspot.com/?view=classic">Course blogsite</a><br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><b><u>TEXTS</u></b></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">BIOETHICS: THE BASICS (Campbell) ”the word ‘bioethics’ just means the ethics of life”... </span></span></li><li><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">BEYOND BIOETHICS (Obasogie) “Bioethics’ traditional emphasis on individual interests such as doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and personal autonomy is minimally helpful in confronting the social and political challenges posed by new human biotechnologies”... </span></span></li><li><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE PREMONITION (Lewis) "The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirteen-year-old girl’s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm’s-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society"... </span></span></li><li><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">WHAT WE OWE THE FUTURE (MacAskill) "argues for longtermism: that positively influencing the distant future is our time’s key moral priority. It’s not enough to reverse climate change or avert a pandemic. We must ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed; counter the end of moral progress; and prepare for a planet where the smartest beings are digital. If we make wise choices now, our grandchildren will thrive, knowing we did everything we could to give them a world full of justice, hope and beauty"...</span></span></li><li><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">And to be announced...</span></span></li></ul><p></p><div class="widget Text" data-version="1" id="Text15" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div><br /></div><div class="clear" style="clear: both;"></div></div><div class="widget PageList" data-version="1" id="PageList1" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-56275356409728305222023-10-29T20:52:00.001-05:002023-10-29T20:52:50.753-05:00A Hospice Nurse on Embracing the Grace of Dying<div dir="ltr"><strong style="font-family: var(--g-font-family-magserif-bold); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"…Have you thought about what a good death would be for you? </strong><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: nyt-mag-serif-text-light, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I want to be at home. I want to have my immediate family come and go as they want, and I want a living funeral. I don't want people to say, "This is my favorite memory of her," when I'm gone. Come when I'm dying, and let's talk about those memories together. There have been times when patients have shared with me that they just don't think anyone cares about them. Then I'll go to their funeral and listen to the most beautiful eulogies..."</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/22/magazine/hadley-vlahos-interview.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare<br>A Hospice Nurse on Embracing the Grace of Dying</div><div dir="ltr"></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-86572744635663188342023-10-01T07:06:00.001-05:002023-10-01T07:06:14.620-05:00Forget About Living to 100. Let’s Live Healthier Instead.<div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 19.125px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I'm 66. I reject this "estimate":</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 19.125px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 19.125px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"…we do not rigorously measure and report health span as we do life expectancy. </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.HALEXv" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 19.125px; line-height: inherit; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891);">Best </a>estimates indicate<span style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 19.125px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> that the average American can expect to celebrate only a single birthday in good health after the traditional retirement age of 65…"</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/opinion/aging-public-health-healthspan.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare<br>Forget About Living to 100. Let's Live Healthier Instead.</div><div dir="ltr"></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-35340120879133350962023-09-13T06:52:00.001-05:002023-09-13T06:52:07.337-05:00A Fitting Final Gift From Jimmy Carter<style>@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}</style><font face="Calibri"><p dir=ltr>He showed us that hospice is not something to fear.</p> <div align="left" ><p dir=ltr>When former President Jimmy Carter <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-hospice.html">entered hospice care</a> in February, many assumed that his death would be imminent, a matter of weeks at most. But six months later, he is still spending time with family and friends, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/us/jimmy-carter-health-hospice.html">still enjoying moments with his wife of nearly eight decades</a>. Life continues, albeit under a shadow.<br> </p> </div><p dir=ltr><br> </p> <div align="left" ><p dir=ltr>As he now approaches what has been reported to be his “<a href="https://people.com/jimmy-rosalynn-carter-health-update-exclusive-7692868">final chapter,</a>” Mr. Carter’s decision to enter hospice and to continue publicizing that choice is a fitting final gift of candor from a former president to an American public that has long been uncomfortable with our own mortality.<br> </p> </div><p dir=ltr><br> </p> <div align="left" ><p dir=ltr>Here in the hospital where I work as a critical-care doctor, the very word “hospice”<i> </i>so often conjures the idea of death and defeat. Just a few days ago, I found myself in a conference room with a man whose wife was dying. She was in her 50s, with cancer that had infiltrated her chest and abdomen. Her time was short, a matter of months at most, and she was in pain and scared, and wanted to be at home. So I suggested to the husband that we consider hospice. I said the word gently, but even so, my patient’s husband flinched. <i>No. </i>His wife wanted to do everything, to fight, to not give up. It wasn’t time for hospice. Not yet...<br> </p> </div><p dir=ltr> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/opinion/jimmy-carter-hospice.html?smid=em-share</p> </font>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-65871799936888957162023-09-03T06:41:00.001-05:002023-09-03T06:41:10.693-05:00JK continues his gene editing "mission"<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CwtF_ilhbv8/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==">https://www.instagram.com/p/CwtF_ilhbv8/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-13941981370898936752023-08-24T11:25:00.001-05:002023-08-24T11:25:16.040-05:00Bad news, good news<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CwVVwuPOyDd/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); 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overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CwVVwuPOyDd/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Asher Perlman (@asherperlman)</a></p></div></blockquote> <script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-60181000298757842332023-08-11T14:58:00.001-05:002023-08-11T14:58:16.212-05:00Forms<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvu-U2IJGcf/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==">https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvu-U2IJGcf/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-15606720197911182562023-06-23T09:07:00.001-05:002023-06-23T09:07:03.849-05:00Digging up bones<div dir="ltr">My Last Shopping List for Him</div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: rgb(54, 54, 54); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 19.125px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: rgb(54, 54, 54); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 19.125px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"…When we bury our loved ones in Greece, tradition requires that we exhume the bones after three years for lack of space; it's rare to get a two- or three-year extension…"</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/style/modern-love-greece-loss-last-shopping-list.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare<br>My Last Shopping List for Him</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Natural (compost) burial looks better all the time…</div><div dir="ltr"></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277984098153355193.post-30649770844900068682023-06-20T10:48:00.001-05:002023-06-20T10:48:03.012-05:00Cure, sure; but...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cttyi-FNrFV/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cttyi-FNrFV/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"> <div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; 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