Primal Neuroanthropology

Click Here to Download to View: Primal Neuroanthropology: A NeuroCreativity Project Educational Conference by Kenneth Gross

Click Here to Purchase:  Primal Neuroanthropology© A Neuro-sports Hypothesis By Kenneth B. V. Gross, M.D..

Click Here to Purchase: Primal Sports II: A Psychoanalytical, Psychoneurological and Neurosociological Treatise with New Game, Myth, Philosophical and Satire Extras by Kenneth Bruce Van Gross, M.D.

A New JFK Assassination Revelation Could Upend the Long-Held “Lone Gunman” Theory

Click Here to Read: A New JFK Assassination Revelation Could Upend the Long-Held “Lone Gunman” Theory: In a new book, former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, largely silent for 60 years, says he found a bullet in Kennedy’s limo. A sometime presidential historian explains why that’s so significant, if true BY James Robenalt on the Vanity Fair website on September 9, 2023,.

Picture of the JFK´s limousine in Dallas, TX. (Main Street) (cut-off version)  Image: Walter Sisco  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A century ago, Eugene Debs ran for U.S. president from prison

Click Here to Read:  A century ago, Eugene Debs ran for U.S. president from prison. Here’s how that went: The forgotten story of the socialist free speech warrior who blazed a trail running for the White House while incarcerated. by Zeeshan Aleem on the MS NBC website on September 4, 2923.

Eugene V. Debs, American Socialist leader, circa 1904.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Poetry Monday: September 4, 2023

Good morning, everyone:  Soon you’ll be sending children or grandchildren off to school, and some of you will be off to school yourselves, as teachers or students  — and in some cases, as it was for me, both.

Those of us who love poetry are always ready to read and learn more about it.  I know that’s why, among all the collections on my shelves are books about fundamentals.  This morning I’d like to tell you about some of those I have recently found most valuable.

First is a recent little book that I will never part with: Musical Tables by former Poet Laureate of the United States, Billy Collins (Random House, 2022).  As critic Alice Fulton has said, he “puts the fun back in profundity.” This book of short, witty poems will bear — in fact, invite — repeated re-readings.  His own love of poetry, he tells us, might have begun with nursery rhymes; I know that mine did.

Which is why, whether you have young children at home or not, I invite you to go back to the enduring classics of your childhood: Mother Goose,  A Child’s Garden of Verses, those fairy tales with crayon-colored names, e.g., The Yellow Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book — and a copy of Bible Stories for Children — if you can find them.  There is also a wonderful, small pocket-sized copy of Emily Dickinson (Modern Library, 2004), with an introduction by Collins himself.  It’s in my handbag now, and I’ve read and re-read it in many a doctor’s or dentist’s waiting-room.  I’m now rushing to put it away, for I never want to be without it — nor, I hope, will you. Continue reading Poetry Monday: September 4, 2023

For 30 years, a memorial to Nazi collaborators sat largely unnoticed just outside Philadelphia.

Click Here to Read: For 30 years, a memorial to Nazi collaborators sat largely unnoticed just outside Philadelphia. Now it’s drawing outrage.
Elkins Park in Montgomery County has several synagogues … and one large monument to Nazi collaborators. Many people had no idea it existed until recently by William Bender and Ryan W. Briggs in the Philadelphia Inquirer on September 3, 2023.