Are you looking for a change of lifestyle in 2021? Consider a move to Sanirajak (previously Hall Beach), an Inuit community of Nunavut, Canada. Look how happy the sledding child is, a charming, little sculpture carved from caribou antler by Silas Kayakjuak (Qayaquaq) from there. Don’t worry about crowds. In 2016 there were 848 [...]
As we turn our thoughts to the new year, my gaze also turns toward the past. I met my Russian relatives for the first time when I accompanied my father to Moscow in 1962. During this visit, my uncle Anatole gave me a row of plastic elephants symbolizing family unity. I was touched and have kept this Russian heirloom, shown here, for 58 years. That blood is thicker than water holds true, despite language, political and cultural differences.
Jeffrey Solow, cello virtuoso and past president of the American String Teachers Association "Retired after a 50-year career as a molecular biologist heading his own laboratory at the US National Institutes of Health, Joram Piatigorsky has now embarked on a second career as a writer. As one would expect, he offers an intimate view of [...]
Enough division, conflict, fear, hatred. Enough, I say! We can’t act for others, but we can for ourselves. Perhaps others will join us. Don’t just preach “Peace on Earth and Goodwill Towards All.” That’s good intentions, but it won’t work. Take a lesson from history. It never has succeeded. We don’t make nice just [...]
Gene therapy continues to crawl into our lives with promises and, this time, some surprises. Patrick Yu-Wai-Man, an ophthalmologist at Cambridge University, treated a patient with a mitochondrial gene defect leading to retinal cell death, causing the blinding disease called Leber hereditary optic neuropathy. Image of human retina This is due to [...]
It’s not necessary for you to believe what I’m about to tell you, because the truth remains even if you don’t believe it. You can’t fool Mother Nature by ignoring or denying her. I never meant to fool anyone, especially Mother Nature. The first weird feat was finding my ball point pen. I was [...]
