In the past month or so North Bergen New Jersey has accounted for half the hits on this blog. Does anyone up there know what’s going on? Write a comment if you do. Happy for the traffic Luysii
Most of you don’t know who he was. He’s a black M. D. who graduated from Jefferson Medical School in Philly the same year I graduated from Penn Med (1966). He was a walking social tragedy. Here’s more from an earlier post. When the team members entered the clinic, they were appalled, describing it to […]
How do you think the New York Times framed Ocasio-Cortez’s disastrous appearance at Munich? In a masterpiece of framing they describe her as frustrated that the focus was not on her arguments, but (in the fourth paragraph of the article in Today’s Times) on her ‘on camera stumbles‘ described by the Times “as stalling for […]
Work reported this year from Norway (Nature vol. 650 pp. 182 – 186 ’26) has great data on the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease neuropathologic changes in the brain but it is quite likely to be misinterpreted and unnecessarily scare people who’ve had the test used to diagnose Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer diagnosis has changed markedly over the […]
I’ve published nearly 1,300 posts over the years, and each day WordPress tells me how many people looked at my blog Chemiotics II and which posts they looked at. A post from the pre ChatGPT era was seen which is relevant to the upheavals of the press today, particularly CBS, so I’m doing something I’ve […]
To leave no one behind, the microbiome is all the organisms (mostly bacterial, but viral, fungal, protozoal and God knows what else) that live in our gastrointestinal tract. A tremendous article in the current issue of Neuron (vol. 114 pp. 196 – 211 ’26) dissects the literature on the relationship of the microbiome to autism. […]
In a few months it will be 70 years since I entered Princeton as a freshman. All alumni are asked to interview admission candidates and describe Princeton to them. I have nothing useful to tell applicants about the current situation at Princeton. The campus ended at Pyne Hall back then and class size was just […]
One son majored in journalism at the university of Minnesota. Although he never wrote for a newspaper or TV, he found what he learned (focus on the important, be brief, be clear, get the facts straight) useful in whatever he did — MicroSoft, VH1, MTV, MFA at USC in animation, teaching it in Hong Kong […]
On page 1 of the New York Times for 13 December ’25 appears the following “University of Texas Is Brought To Heel by Conservative Critics”. To which I say Mazel Tov. Here is how UT treated Steven Weinberg, one of the giants of 20th century physics. “Steve also once told me that, when he (like […]
First the joke, then its resurrection by the Times. Back in the day when people read magazines a gifted writer, Morris Paranoidowitz drove his editor crazy. “Morris, Morris, give it a rest. All you do is write about Jews and their troubles. Surely you can write about something else. Why don’t you write about […]
