Mirror statues in the woods. Queen Elizabeth forest park (Aberfoyle) Scotland. : pics. Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future. Claude Lanzmann: the man who stood witness for the world | Film | The Observer. One evening – we are not given a date, but it must be the early 1960s – the great French philosopher, essayist, novelist and pioneer of feminism Simone de Beauvoir was, as so often, at the theatre.
But this was a stranger night than most. On De Beauvoir's left sat her lifelong companion and erstwhile lover, the greatest philosopher of his generation and founder of existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre. To her right was her current lover, the writer, former resistance fighter and film director Claude Lanzmann. And on stage: Lanzmann's sister Évelyne, a foremost actress of the day, playing the lead role in Sartre's play Huis Clos. Shoah Production year: 1985 Country: France Runtime: 566 mins Directors: Claude Lanzmann More on this film But of the leading protagonists in that intellectual cauldron, only one titanic figure remains, Claude Lanzmann, whose memoir is published in the UK this month. Lanzmann is a witness of his time. There is a raw account of his sister's life and suicide in 1966. Wellness Wordworks Instant Peer Support Home Page | Wellness Wordworks. We are not anti-medication critics, we are pro informed choice | Wellness Wordworks.
Many mental health advocates are for careful and judicious use of medications, not the anti medication critics we are assumed to be. Many times when people in the recovery movement criticize medications, people accuse us of being anti-medication. Recently, our UnDiagnosing Emotional Distress Facebook discussion group decided to recreate our mission. We now focus on social messaging around sharing complete recovery based on knowing that emotional suffering is a normal response to abnormal events. This is part of our move to solution based advocacy, where instead of critcizing the current paradigm, we are creating a new conceptualization of emotional distress with completely differnet treatment options. Whenever we bring up these topics, though, people often assume that we are anti-medication critics.
These are some of the clarifications we’ve found that explain our positions. Click here to join our group. Corinna West: I am not against medication. Sue Westwind: Great discussion. NPR Tries to Get its Pressthink Right. Feb.26 It now commits itself to avoiding the worst excesses of “he said, she said” journalism. It says to itself that a report characterized by false balance is a false report. It introduces a new and potentially powerful concept of fairness: being “fair to the truth.” My verdict: Bravo, NPR. Within the world of pressthink there are occasional “events,” things that happen and by happening bring to light shifts in thought. It happened last week when NPR released a new document, an ethics handbook headlined: This is NPR. And these are the standards of our journalism Much of what’s in the handbook is Journalism 101. In my view the most important changes are these passages: # In all our stories, especially matters of controversy, we strive to consider the strongest arguments we can find on all sides, seeking to deliver both nuance and clarity.
And… At all times, we report for our readers and listeners, not our sources. Maintaining the “appearance of balance” isn’t good enough, NPR says. I. Adventures In Behavioral Neurology—or—what Neurology Can Tell Us About Human Nature. When you look at the structure of the brain it's made up of neurons. Of course, everybody knows that these days. There are 100 billion of these nerve cells. Each of these cells makes about 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons. From this information people have calculated that the number of possible brain states, of permutations and combinations of brain activity, exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe. The question is how do you go about studying this organ? Behavioral neurology has a long history going back about 150 years, a venerable tradition going back to Charcot.
It doesn't have to be a lesion; it can be a genetic change. In general, we look at is curious phenomenon, syndromes that have been known for ages, maybe 100 years, 50 years, that people have brushed under the carpet because they're regarded as anomalies, to use Thomas Kuhn's phrase. One of the peculiar syndromes, which we have studied recently, is called apotemnophilia. Fwgk8.jpg (JPEG Image, 765 × 810 pixels) Agenda | Phaidon. If you had a daughter. How plants warn each other of danger.
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