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Healthcare Crisis

Originally written in 2005   The healthcare crisis in the US is growing in severity and yet is not the subject of any real public debate. More than 44 million Americans are without health insurance and almost 65 million will experience a lack of coverage during the year. Emergency rooms are the primary care provider of necessity. All of this despite the fact that, as a n […]

Health Care Crisis - the data

Back to the Health Care Crisis essay Be sure to scroll down to the "Yellow" coded scores for the US. Comparative Health System Data Health Spending per Capita 2002 Infant Mortality per 1000 Births 2003 Life Expectancy in Years at Birth 2003 1 United States $4,271 1 Sweden 3.44 1 Andorra 83.49 2 Switzerla […]

Michael Crichton’s Congo and the Transformation of the Western Mind

Book Review/Essay  2/97 (revised 1/29/02 - maps added at bottom) (revised 6/25/03 - map of Angola superimposed on the US) Michael Crichton’s 1980 pulp novel Congo opens with an introduction that is truly arresting . I quote here the first two paragraphs in their entirety. “Only pr […]

Successful Intelligence by Robert J. Sternberg

Successful Intelligence: how practical and creative intelligence determine success in life by Robert J. Sternberg (NY: Penguin Putnam, 1997) (This review is four pages long. Download a PDF (112K) for easier reading) Throughout my life I have been interested in intelligence, mine and that of others. From early […]