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I just submitted Sundering of the Species–Conserving Humanity at the Dawn of Posthuman Technology–, to my publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, 400 pp. The challenge I set…
Happy Easter to my Christian friends, happy Pesach to my Jewish friends. Since Trump is a non-sectarian blight upon the country, I’d like to say…
“Diane” I’m in heaven when I see you smile Smile for me, my Diane And though everything’s dark, all the while I can see you,…
Few of us can say they knew someone who fought in WWI. Tuesday, May 8, 1945, VE Day, when war ended in Europe for…
A few weeks ago, I, Jonathan Marcantoni, Editorial Trance, was turned on to poetry collection Detrás del Acero by Joe Carvalko. His book examines…
Looking back on my early experience as a young engineer, I am reminded how little my colleagues and I appreciated that what we did would…
We are on the eve of the potentially deadly Hurricane Florence hitting the Carolinas. In a few days, the government will once again, methodically assess…
I got an email from a friend wringing his hands over what’s wrong with America. Too liberal, he says, too diverse, suggesting that if it…
During a court hearing, Friday, July 27, a government attorney argued that the court-ordered reunification deadlines to reunite children with mothers and fathers did not…
I couldn’t be in my wife’s skin when she carried our child for nine months. I couldn’t feel the embryo transform into a fetus that…
July resonates for lots of reasons, and, this year because I find it incredulous that President Trump praises Putin, expresses faith in Kim Jong-un’s willingness…
There seems to be a gross misunderstanding about the rights of the families being ripped apart along the border, so I thought I’d provide some…
President Trump signed an executive order today mandating for children to stay with their parents in detention while their asylum claims are processed. This executive…
What the hell did the Patriots fight for anyway? To end up flushing social justice down the toilet? Every day 14 million kids, representing 19%…
Democracies need both a free Internet and free speech, and judging from the election tampering that has occurred recently throughout Europe and the United States,…
Every day, Americans struggle against one or both natural and man-made disasters. President Trump personifies not one, but both–, natural in the pathological sense, because…
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Within the next decade, reactive medical practices will evolve into what has been popularly coined “P4” medicine – predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory – where examinations will take place at home, where devices connected to the body, externally and internally, will send medical data into the cloud, where expert systems will analyze and determine wellness and disease, as well as tweak, in real time, personalized electronic prescriptions for medical treatment and anatomical enhancement. Patients should own this data, and here is why.
It’s past midnight and I have put the pen down to scan the four framed pictures hung over my desk—, two abstract, colorful geometric figures; two portray boxers with an uncertain fate. I wonder why I chose to hang them where I spend most days and nights.
My granddaughter sat next to me at the piano waiting to start her first lesson. On the rack in front of us, the music for “Some Enchanted Evening,” stared back, which, but for Amy’s question, “Poppie, when did you learn to play the piano?” would have been unremarkable. When I didn’t respond, she insisted, “Poppie, who . . .?” “My aunt played and she showed me. Now, you know your alphabet, so let’s start there.” Amy wasn’t finished. “Does she still play?” “I don’t think so….” “Why?” “Well, I don’t know.” Sometimes we hide the truth because, as in this case, my student needed to hear the harmonies, not the dissonance of a woman once musically possessed. But, as the time passed, Amy’s question kept putting me back on Maple Street.
Scott Pruitt, President-elect Trump’s selection to run the Environmental Protection Agency by all accounts believes that global warming doesn’t involve human activity, such as coal burning, driving or deforestation. We should admire his skepticism. After all, for centuries scientists have proposed countless theories, widely accepted at the time, but later proven false. Perhaps he knows some newly discovered facts or explanations that would lead to a plausible theory that humankind isn’t the driving factor behind global warming. I look forward to his upcoming congressional confirmation hearings so he might enlighten us.
“…Someday, only remnants of the Homo sapiens will remain. Some predict not beyond the twenty-fourth century. By then what was once a life form that tracked its origins back 2.5 million years, will have completely disappeared.”
How did Trump, a man with so little substance, become the prospective leader of the free world. Why did sixty million Americans vote him in,…
I make it a practice to look back on what I write, especially when what I’d written takes a social or political stance. It helps…
A recent ABA Journal article called to mind the similarity between writers of fiction, politicians and trial lawyers. Particularly, our susceptibility to believing in a…
Last week I wrote an essay about why the date July 27, rang a bell. It was about why Trump’s nod to the Russian’s to…
DÉJÀ VU Dateline: July 27, 2016 For some reason the date yesterday kept bouncing around in my head. Maybe because it was that…