International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue Volume #3 Issue # 2

 Click Here to Read: The International Journal of Controversial Discussions Volume #3 Issue #2.  The theme of the issue is Primary Femininity: Discussions on a Central Identity, with a target paper by Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D and edited by M. Sagman Kayatekin, M.D. There is also a paper entitled Psychoanalytic History—Sketches The Power of Exclusion (An Ode to Sheldon Bach and Sándor Ferenczi) by Carolyn Ellman with commentary by Ph.D. with a response by Giselle Galdi. This journal is supported by a generous grant from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation.
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For Years We Searched for Alzheimer’s in the Brain. Now, Researchers Suggest It May Begin Elsewhere

Click Here to Read: For Years We Searched for Alzheimer’s in the Brain. Now, Researchers Suggest It May Begin Elsewhere. A large-scale genetic study suggests some of the processes driving Alzheimer’s disease may begin in the lungs, gut, and blood, years before reaching the brain by Rakefet Tavor on the Epoch News website on  July 6, 2026.

An illustration of the neuropathology of Alzheimer’s disease Image: BruceBlaus.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Action! NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins capturing the greatest cosmic movie ever made

Click Here to Read: Action! NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins capturing the greatest cosmic movie ever made: The 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time has officially started, marking the beginning of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics on the US National Science Foundation website on  June 30, 2026.

Rubin Observatory and Its Target. Image: Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/B. Quint,  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A mere 3,400 years ago, one of Egypt’s greatest, most enigmatic, and, to be polite, let’s say eccentric pharaohs got one of the most revolutionary ideas in history in his head

Click Here to Read: A mere 3,400 years ago, one of Egypt’s greatest, most enigmatic, and, to be polite, let’s say eccentric pharaohs got one of the most revolutionary ideas in history in his head by Candida Moss in the Stones and Bones newsletter on the National Geographic  website on July 1, 2026,

Akhenaten Image: Beeld van Achnaton.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.