The Digital Divide
I finally got rid of text on my phone. Last year I got rid of my smart phone, and welcomed back several hours of my life per week (sometimes hours per day). However, I continued to get bombarded with dozens…
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Liars, Scoundrels and Nutritional Research
Once upon a time a friend of ours was having a conversation with an Italian gentleman. He voiced to the man how much he liked Italy and its people. The man responded, “my people are scoundrels and thieves.” Stealing this…
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Community – The Ultra Important but Rarely Considered Component of Our Health
It is the time of year ago where people are generally happy due to the celebration of traditions. Traditions with friends and family always put a smile on our faces, no matter how much modern society tells us traditions are…
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Pistachios at Night: Limits in the Age of Abundance
“And I?” said Dame Hunger. “Dost though loved me?” “Si, Dio ti bendicha!” replied the signore. “La fame ghastiga il ghiotto” (Hunger corrects gluttony) The Three Horns of Messer Guicciardini, by Charles Godfrey Leland I am standing in front…
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The Architecture of Health and Happiness Part I: Beautiful Communities and the Simulacra
I started writing this article a couple years back, after finishing for a second time The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples by David Gilmour. In one of the few books I have…
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Living in a Science Experiment
Along 405 Memorial Drive and the Charles River site the building that once housed my college fraternity Alpha Tau Omega. ATO was a great group of guys and an amazing place to live—I was too young and green to realize…
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Beating Our Brains to Death With Technology
I have been working a ton, particularly in the clinic. The life of a physician these days—and particularly a radiation oncologist—involves a required logging into a computer and then logging into 4 different software systems throughout the day while being…
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Slowing Down in a World of Problems without Solutions, and Solutions without Problems
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” – Alice in Wonderland, Lewis…
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Devices and Distraction: Permission to Change Course, Sir
Society continues to chug on, much like the Titanic, slowly but forcefully moving “forward.” The rest of us are on board, apparently simple observers staring off the starboard. Yet, when we notice a giant iceberg ahead, it seems like we…
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Silence within the Dissonance
I was outside with Chiara and Aurelia pulling weeds and trimming plants when the sky suddenly turned black and the wind picked up out of nowhere. Within seconds we were scrambling to move cars into the garage and had ourselves…
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