Books and Ideas #20: Mindfulness Meditation with Delany Dean

Episode 20 of Books and Ideas is an interview with forensic psychologist Delany Dean, PhD. Dr. Dean began her career as a criminal lawyer but his interest in the mind and the brain lead her to a second career as a clinical psychologist. Besides forensic psyschology she has extensive experience with therapies based on the [...]

Could the Eye Evolve? The answer is Yes!

I have been meaning to recommend the excellent website Expelled Exposed, which documents all the lies and misleading statements in Ben’s Stein’s creationist “documentary,” Expelled. A central claim is that professors who believe in intelligent design are being persecuted, a claim that is totally unfounded. Expelled Exposed was created by the National Center for Science [...]

Nancy Yanes Hoffman reviews “When Doctors Become Patients”

I have mentioned Nancy Yanes Hoffman’s Writing Doctor’s Blog several times in the past. She has graciously allowed me to quote from her recent review of WHEN DOCTORS BECOME PATIENTS by Robert Klitzman.
When Harcourt bought CHANGE OF HEART: The Bypass Experience, my book interviewing 1100 veterans of coronary bypass surgery, I was elated. Flush [...]