Category: science
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UNHappy
I see and hear so much bad shit, so much depressing shit, I sometimes have to intentionally steer myself to good shit. I mean that wholeheartedly. Today, I received a phone call from a family friend to let me know that someone who’d come to me for my opinion on getting UNsick following cancer treatment is in…
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A Feeling Healed A Fish
Healing things runs in our family. My 16-year-old son purchased a neon-blue Dwarf Gourami a couple of months ago. It developed dwarf gourami iridovirus, something we found is common to this species of fish. According to an article on FishChannel.com, “This fish disease is highly contagious, completely untreatable and invariably fatal.” Nobody told us this…
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Sledgehammers, Hazelnuts, Chemo and Cancer
CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC ALERT: In recent news, TV personality Joan Lunden is on the cover of People magazine. She’s bald. She’s being celebrated. Why? Because Lunden is fighting breast cancer through the use of chemo. I feel the urge to be unabashedly honest here. Society tells me that I’m supposed to feel awe, love, empathy. That…