Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We’re not ready

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Politics, Science

Click Here to View: Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We’re not ready Ted Talk from March 2015.
In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers — plus, frankly, thanks to some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now’s the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all our good ideas into practice, from scenario planning to vaccine research to health worker training. As he says, “There’s no need to panic … but we need to get going.”

An appreciation of jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, 1938-2020

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Arts

Click Here to Read: An appreciation of jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, 1938-2020
By Matthew Brennan on the World Socialist Web Site on March 16, 2020.
Image: Joe Mabel. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

How Different Types of Exercise Improve Your Mental Health

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: How Different Types of Exercise Improve Your Mental Health on the Pick the Brain website on March 8, 2020.
Image: Jorge Royan. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Visualizing the History of Pandemics

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: Visualizing the History of Pandemics, by Death Toll By Nicholas LePan on the Visual Capitalist website on March 14, 2020. Image:https://www.scientificanimations.com. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

How Parents Can Help Their Children During the Pandemic

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: How Parents Can Help Their Children During the Pandemic: Stop, look, and listen by Leon Hoffman on his Beyond Freud ad on the Psychology Today blog on March 16, 2020.
Image: Ezra Katz. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Call for Papers for the 2021 American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW): Deadline Extended to March 31, 2021

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 15, 2020March 16, 2020 EVENTS

CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline March 31, 2020. The American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW), is holding its conference March 11-14, 2021, in Philadelphia, PA — A Time to Think, A Time to Act: Caring about the Known and the Unknown.
For more information go to this Link:
https://www.aapcsw.org/events/conference/

Outside the Lines Sports Commentary Continuuuuuuuuuuuuuues…. Pronouncement made at the American Academy of Neurology*

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 15, 2020March 15, 2020 Psychoanalysis, Science

In our brain/mind processing of Sports, it would seem we’d be taking a big chunk out of that neuropsychiatric love affair with the discontinuation of March Madness and the NBA schedule.

But continuing with the neuropathological dissection, we are left with bare images of five on five hoop games with no one in the arena!! Of course, such a nightmarish scenario could not be allowed to happen. After all, when you and some pals hit the schoolyard with a big roundball say 40 or 50 years ago, you couldn’t drag anyone to stop watching Leave it to Beaver and stand there watching you and your knucklehead friends.

But of course, you and your silly pals weren’t hitting threes at the rate of 39% or setting heavyweight picks not being 6’10 and 375 (so exciting to see you know). Continue reading Outside the Lines Sports Commentary Continuuuuuuuuuuuuuues…. Pronouncement made at the American Academy of Neurology*