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- Dr. Michael Stone on "The Dian...
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Prometheus Books Daily Mail article on antibiotic-resistant infections, excerpted from 'RISING PLAGUE':
The REAL antibiotics scandal: Greedy drug firms, not GPs handing out antibiotics, are fuelling the r
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
Overuse of antibiotics, many people think, has led to the rise in killer superbugs. However, the problem is not GPs - it's the drug companies.
Prometheus Books Joan Konner article and video on The Huffington Post.com, discussing the concept of "You Don't Have to Be Buddhist to Know Nothing": "Nothing exists. Nothing is an essential presence in our lives. Paradoxical? Yes. Illogical and irrational? Yes."
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
Nothing exists. Nothing is an essential presence in our lives. Paradoxical? Yes. Illogical and irrational? Yes. Yet to ignore Nothing is to deny our road to renewal.
Prometheus Books Watch pregnancy myths discussed by a husband and wife OB-GYN team, authors of 'Hands Off My Belly!':
Prometheus Books 'The Brain Advantage' in the workplace:
Source: www.reuters.com
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The modern workplace is an emotionally charged landscape of constant threats and unconscious fears that can addle or even destroy our brainpower, according to three recent books on
Prometheus Books Musician Will Daily tweets: "Just got Howard Bloom's new book. The Genius of the Beast. Tearing into it now."
Source: www.willdailey.com
In case you missed "Never Be Your Baby" during yesterday's episode of NCIS LA last night, be sure to listen for "Eliza" (from Back Flipping Forward) during Friday's episode of NUMB3Rs.
Prometheus Books The Daily Beast weighs in on the New Atheism style versus that of more traditional nonbelievers. For more info, see Victor Stenger's 'The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason.'
Source: www.thedailybeast.com
From subway ads to “Blasphemy Day,” nonbelievers are proselytizing louder than ever. But as they draw more converts, are they in danger of losing their unique brand of faith?
Prometheus Books Praise for Joan Konner's 'You Don't Have to Buddhist to Know Nothing' and accompanying blog on Boing Boing -- "It's a sound bite history of the presence of Nothing in Western thought including some essential bites from Eastern minds."
Source: www.boingboing.net
I'm an archival researcher--I work part-time at Princeton Architectural Press in the editorial department and the other half of the week freelance researching book projects. Last year I researched the ...
Prometheus Books "If I eat more breakfast cereal I will have a boy" and other pregnancy myths discussed:
Source: www.expectingwords.com
Expectant mothers are magnets for unsolicited advice, much of it based on myths. Drs. Shawn A. Tassone and Kathryn M. Landherr help us separate fact from fiction.
Prometheus Books New Psychology Today blog by the visionary Howard Bloom, author of 'The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism', debuts this week:
Giving America a Vision Implant—Crayfish, Neurochemicals and the Future of Your Civilization | Psych
Source: www.psychologytoday.com
The chemicals of a crayfish and the future of America. By Howard Bloom...
Prometheus Books Launching an 'attention movement' in a distracted society: Grassroots efforts to take back focus and stop the erosion of attention pick up steam
Source: bit.ly
What can happen when we lose our ability to sustain focus? In "Distracted," Maggie Jackson ponders our cyber-centric world and fears we're entering a dark age of interruption that will render us unable to think critically, work creatively or cultivate meaningful relationships. ...
Prometheus Books Congratulations to 'A Question of Murder' and 'Mortal Evidence' author on the naming of the "Cyril H. Wecht Institute for Forensic Science" lab in PA!
Source: www.pittsburghlive.com
The lab will be named the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science to honor the lifetime of service that Dr. Wecht has provided for Allegheny County.
Prometheus Books 'DISTRACTED: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age'--in paperback just this week--becomes more prescient with each passing day, or clown...
Source: www.sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2009) Everyone tends to float off into space once in a while and fail to see what is sitting there right in front of them. Recently researchers decided to put the theory of “inattentional blindness” to the test: the unicycling clown test. ...
Prometheus Books Martin Gardner, author of nearly 20 titles for Prometheus Books, profiled in the NYT Science section:
Source: www.nytimes.com
Martin Gardner is the world’s best-known recreational mathematician, and has probably introduced more people to the joys of math than anyone in history.
Prometheus Books "Surveys suggest that a fifth of us now interrupt lovemaking to read an email, take a call or fire off a tweet." What becomes of personal relationships when our attention is that DISTRACTED? Maggie Jackson's book on 'the erosion of attention and the coming dark age' now in paperback:
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
Slowing down between the sheets can deepen the emotional, psychological, even spiritual power of sex. It also gives the body -- especially the female body -- the time it needs to warm up.
