Poetry Monday: August 1, 2022
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Eugene Mahon

Good morning, everyone.  I do hope it’s a good one for most of you.  How I wish we could feel relieved that the pandemic is over, but of course we can’t – not yet.  And we have a new one dawning.  Hope is not a cure, but hope can help – as can poetry, which eases the soul.

Our poet today, Eugene Mahon, is someone known to many of you in the psychiatric profession, but for those who aren’t, here are some facts about his interesting background.

Eugene Mahon, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst on the faculty of Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research.  A member of the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies, Princeton, N.J., he practices adult and child psychoanalysis in New York City.

He has published four books on psychoanalysis: A Psychoanalytic Odyssey (Karnac Books, 2014), Rensal the Rabbit (Karnac Books, 2014), Boneshop of the Heart (IPBooks, 2016), and Such Stuff as Dreams: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry with an Introduction by Theodore Jacobs (IPBooks, 2022), as well as more Continue reading Poetry Monday: August 1, 2022

Identity of mystery fossils found in Chinese cave revealed by DNA analysis
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Click Here to Read:  Identity of mystery fossils found in Chinese cave revealed by DNA analysis By Katie Hunt, on the  CNN  News website on July 14, 2022.
Longlin 1 partial skull (each bar = 1 cm) found in Longlin Cave in the Guangxi Zhuang region of China. Image Curnoe, D.; Xueping, J.; Herries, A. I. R.; Kanning, B.; Taçon, P. S. C.; Zhende, B.; Fink, D.; Yunsheng, Z  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 

Seriously, What’s Making All These Mysterious Space Signals?
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Click Here to Read: Seriously, What’s Making All These Mysterious Space Signals? In astronomy, the study of fast radio bursts can sometimes feel like a game of Clue By Marina Koren on the Atlantic website on July 15. 2022.

 This image, called the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF), combines Hubble observations taken over the past decade of a small patch of sky in the constellation of Fornax. With a total of over two million seconds of exposure time, it is the deepest image of the Universe ever made, combining data from previous images including the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (taken in 2002 and 2003) and Hubble Ultra Deep Field Infrared (2009).Image:  NASA.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
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Click Here to Read: First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way by Event Horizon Telescope on the Real Clear Science website on May 13, 2022.

This Chandra image of Sgr A* and the region around it was based on almost two weeks of observing time. A theoretical model based on these deep data has been produced to help explain why this giant black hole seems to consume so little material. Scientists have also used these data to probe supernova remnants and lobes of hot gas extending away from the black hole. The image also contains several mysterious X-ray filaments. Image: NASA/CXC/MIT/F.K. Baganoff et al.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Chinese Itzik Comes to Haifa
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Click Here to Read: Chinese Itzik Comes to Haifa: Beijing’s courtship of Israel has been canny and effective BY matti Friedman on the Tablet website on January 09, 2022.

The Israel Navy congratulates the Chinese Navy on docking at the Haifa port. On August 13, 2012, the Chinese vessels arrived at Israel in order to celebrate 20 years of cooperation between the Israel Navy and the Chinese Navy. RADM Yang Jun-Fei was welcomed by the Haifa base commander, Brig. Gen. Eli Sharvit, upon his docking.  Image: https://www.flickr.com/people/45644610@N03  Publ,ic Domain via Wikimedia Commons.