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The Mind Is The Body
By Emily Anthes/Undark
Nearly two decades ago, Donna Jackson Nakazawa's immune system launched a misguided attack on her own body. Her white blood cells - which typically fight off invading pathogens - went to war against her nerves, destroying the layer of fatty insulation that helps nerve cells transmit their signals. Nakazawa, a journalist and author, had Guillain-BarreĢ syndrome, a rare autoimmune condition that caused muscle spasms and left her temporarily unable to walk.
But alongside these physical symptoms, she also began to feel as though something had gone amiss in her mind. She developed severe anxiety and began experiencing troubling memory lapses, even forgetting how to tie her daughter's shoes.
"I could not shake the feeling that just as my body had been altered, something physical had also shifted in my brain," Nakazawa writes in her new book, The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed The Course of Medicine.
Posted on February 23, 2020
A People's History Of ThanksgivingWhere Is The Gold?With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.Continue reading "A People's History Of Thanksgiving" » Posted on November 28, 2013 |
Chicago Blog Review: Fruit SlingerA welcome blast of summer-friendly food porn on a daily basis.Continue reading "Chicago Blog Review: Fruit Slinger" » Posted on August 6, 2009 |
The Mind Is The Body
By Emily Anthes/Undark
Yet more evidence arrives that mental illness is actually every bit as biological as, say, cancer or a diabetes.Posted on February 23, 2020
It's Happening Here
By Michael Winship/Common Dreams
"Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism in the twentieth century. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so."Posted on February 18, 2020
Manufacturing Doubt: The Corporate Manipulation Of Science
By Christie Aschwanden/Undark
Whether the issue is opioid addiction, climate change, or the health consequences of sugar, silica dust, diesel exhaust, or even America's most-watched professional sport, vested interests are standing by with paid experts to direct the conversation away from known harms to focus instead on uncertainties, real or imagined.Posted on February 14, 2020
The Case For Multiparty Democracy
via New America
If voters learn what politics should be about through electoral campaigns, multiparty and two-party democracy communicate different messages. Multiparty democracy communicates that democracy is about building coalitions and alliances. Two-party democracy communicates that democracy is about the true majority triumphing.Posted on January 24, 2020
The Fall Of 1987
By Doug E. Doug
A dope novel.Posted on January 14, 2020
How To Blow The Whistle
By Boing Boing
"If you need to avoid leaving a metadata trail about your interest in this topic, make sure to buy at a physical bookstore and pay with cash."Posted on January 10, 2020
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases Of The Civil Right Era
By The National Press Club
Known as "the South's Simon Wiesenthal," Jerry Mitchell received a genius grant in 2009 and still works as an investigative reporter for the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger.Posted on January 8, 2020
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