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To Die of Having Lived
… the care), the wisdom of continuing treatment may come into question. But by then the patient will likely have been intubated and placed on a ventilator, a feeding tube may have been inserted, a catheter placed in the bladder, IVs started in peripheral veins or threaded through a major blood vessel near the heart, and …
Read MoreDepth Wish
… of the Scholar, and a Web visionary no less, could be so enthusiastic about the magazine. We’ve even put into practice a few of his ideas, feeding in a modest way the hunger he identified—or at least imagined.
Forgive me if I sound like Wolf Blitzer touting “the best political team on television …
Historians and Nature
… Aquifer in order to irrigate fields and free themselves from the persistent threat of drought. This “man-made rain” earned billions of dollars by irrigating crops to feed to cattle in confined animal feedlot operations. But it also led to the breaking out of marginal lands with unstable soils and to keeping lands in production …
Read MoreIce
… to where he was born to mate—” Maud tenses for a comment from Peter but this time he makes none. The public-address speaker crackles with static, “ . . . feeds at night . . . eats luminous squid, fish, and krill.” Maud looks over at Peter’s bunk and sees that Peter’s eyes are closed. Relieved, she reaches up …
Read MoreScience Doubters
… Onion, the tyranny of the glowing rectangle. The Internet in all its accessorized fabulousness may be the product of advanced science and engineering, yet it paradoxically can feed some of our most unscientific, irrational, and overwrought impulses. Not only does the Web allow every crank and conspiracy theorist to instantly find a global community of …
Read MoreMy Brain on My Mind
… want-want-want-want. Eventually you dredge up the right name from the mind’s murky sea. Attention is the net. Attention may be a function of feedback loops (“reentrant connections”), neurons firing from the frontal cortex back to the sensory relay station, the thalamus, to suppress irrelevant stimuli.
Certain neurons work as feature detectors …
The Doctor Is IN
… is called, as cold and unfeeling, an icy manipulation of stimulus and response. With his analytic background and interest in how the human mind processes information, Beck brought a much-needed warmth and nuance to the movement. He also brought a medical doctor’s access to large clinical populations and an uncommon talent for feeding
Read MoreA Day in the Life
… other fellow’s position.” He shows tremendous compassion, and not just for Stephen, whom he will rescue from the Nighttown brothel in “Circe.” He helps a blind person cross the street, feeds the gulls swooping over the River Liffey, tries to console a woman whose husband has gone mental, and sympathizes with another man’s
Read MoreNotes from the Earth
… you have good neutral buoyancy skills, you can suspend yourself a few inches from the bottom and scrutinize a single, tiny creature, minute after minute, as it feeds.
That day, diving at Dixon Entrance, I felt like an astronaut on an extravehicular excursion. The seamount, which rose to within 60 feet of the surface …
Any Way You Slice It
… no chimney or flue, and heating takes time. You have to light a fire in the mouth, then gradually push the burning pile back as you keep feeding it, setting up a current that sucks air in along the floor of the oven and carries smoke out in a layer above. Inevitably, as I toss …
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