Category Archives: The Internet

The Power of Silence

Posted on 02/12/2024 by Jorge Medico

We as a society are too connected to our phones, entertainment, our music. Many of us have lost the desire and ability to unplug from this world, and to allow silence and reflection to enter back into our lives. The … Continue reading →

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The Ever Shifting Sands of Time

Posted on 01/29/2024 by Jorge Medico

As we get less young, we get more focused on time. Here are some thoughts written by others on this subject. Feel free to share your own. We are horrible with our time. Our initial reaction is to blame it … Continue reading →

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The Challenge and Threat of Pseudoscience

Posted on 01/15/2024 by Jorge Medico

There was a piece yesterday on CBS Sunday morning about a man frozen for the past thirty years and preserved now for as long as someone is willing to pay the bills in a tank of liquid nitrogen through a … Continue reading →

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Best Books List

Posted on 01/08/2024 by Jorge Medico

A friend recently asked me to list twenty of my favorite books that I’ve read in the past few years. They are not all recent releases, and I can’t claim that they are the best books literature has to offer. … Continue reading →

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Outage

Posted on 08/14/2023 by Jorge Medico

The following piece by my friend Dave speaks to the vagaries of memory along with our ever increasing reliance on our technological devices. Interruption of our electronic umbilical cords leaves us starved for our needed connectivity. Outage The modem in … Continue reading →

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Who Do You Believe?

Posted on 06/11/2020 by Jorge Medico

Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.” Having come from a background grounded in science, I have long been schooled in the scientific method, and how proofs of theories are … Continue reading →

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