Conventional psychiatry isn’t working. That’s the conclusion of no less an eminent figure than Dr Anne Harrington in her book Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness.
All of us have been horrified and heartbroken by the events in Israel and Gaza. I’m calling on my entire community to turn our thoughts and prayers into action for this beleaguered corner of the world.
Imagine a giant manufacturing plant with a central office and large numbers of energy centers used to power the rest of the plant, so large and sophisticated that they are host to thousands of simultaneous chemical and electrical processes. Then imagine that there are 40 trillion of these extraordinary manufacturing plants sitting cheek by jowl, […]
Life isn’t working the way it once did — and we all know it. Most of us throw up our hands and cry, “What can I do? What can any one person do to change anything?” What you must realize is the incredible power that you — and each of us —already hold to make […]
Ever since a physicist named Ibn al-Haytham developed the scientific method more than a thousand years ago, scientists have attempted to take apart the universe like one vast radio to examine its component parts.
In 1948, just three years after the end of the Second World War, an earlier pandemic than Covid gripped America. Tens of thousands of people were struck down by the polio virus, and with no cure in sight and a vaccine still to be developed, thousands died. Those who survived were often left crippled—just as […]
We just saw the movie Oppenheimer, which tells the story about the celebrated physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was recruited by the US government to build the first atomic bomb. Oppenheimer's views about the bomb follow an arc, from a fervent feeling that his bomb would stop the Nazis from building one first, to the […]
Technology and the need to sit for long periods staring at computers, phones and other electronic devices have affected our biology in myriad ways, causing a raft of syndromes to our backs, necks, spines, arms, wrists, hips and more.
Although we like to think of ourselves as the most well developed of all species on the planet, animals have abilities that far surpass us in almost every regard.
Psychics and many traditional cultures have maintained that human beings have a special connection with the earth and, as the earth and the planets wax and wane, so we do, too. But is there a single part of the body that serves as our antennae?