Astronomers uncover ‘invisible’ massive ancient galaxies

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 8, 2019August 8, 2019 Science

Click Here to Read: Astronomers uncover ‘invisible’ massive ancient galaxies By Ashley Strickland on the CNN website on August 7, 2019.

Dotted across the sky in the constellation of Pictor (The Painter’s Easel) is the galaxy cluster highlighted here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope: SPT-CL J0615-5746, or SPT0615 for short. Photo: ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Karachentsev et al., F. High et al. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

How Mosquitoes Helped Shape the Course of Human History

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 7, 2019August 7, 2019 History, Science

Click Here to Read: How Mosquitoes Helped Shape the Course of Human History: Historian and author Timothy Winegard discusses the way mosquitoes have played a major role in battles, genetics and the gin and tonic By Emily Toomey on the Smithsonian Magazine website on August 5, 2019.

Photo: JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

What Experts Know About People Who Commit Mass Shootings

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 7, 2019August 7, 2019 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: What Experts Know About People Who Commit Mass Shootings by By Benedict Carey in the New York Times on August 5, 2019.

Image: Doctorrads. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Cowap Conference: What Do Women Want Today?

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 7, 2019August 7, 2019 EVENTS

What Do Women Want Today? November 8th and 9th, 2019 Washington DC

CCOWAP Conference: What Do Women Want Today? November 8^th and 9^th, 2019 Washington DC

Committee of Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytic Association, (COWAP)

Leading international thinkers in the field will discuss contemporary answers to Freud’s classic question “what do women want?” Today, women are exploring new gender identities, gender dynamics, and family configurations. They want to be thought of as whole persons and free themselves from the echoes of a misogynistic sociocultural history. Of course, each woman will have her own answer.

Keynote speaker: Virginia Ungar, President, International Psychoanalytic Association

Presenters: Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose • Patricia Alkolombre • Rosemary Balsam • Cecile R. Bassen • Margarita Cereijido • Paula L. Ellman • Elizabeth Fritsch •Leticia Glocer Fiorini • Nancy R. Goodman • Adrienne Harris • Janice S. Lieberman • Adriana Prengler • Arlene Kramer Richards

Giselle Carino, CEO, International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere

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The Death and Life of a Great American Building

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 6, 2019August 6, 2019 History

Click Here to Read: The Death and Life of a Great American Building by
Jeremiah Moss on the New York Review of Books Daily website on March 7, 2018.

Image: St. Denis Hotel. Image extracted from page 238 of King’s Handbook of New York City. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Movies Monday: Winter Light

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 5, 2019August 6, 2019 Film

Click Here to Read: Winter Light by Ingmar Bergman (1963): A Man Who Cannot Grieve Cannot Love by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen on her Characters on the Couch blog on June 6, 2019.

Alas, poor Hamlet

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 2, 2019August 2, 2019 Literature

Click Here to Read: Alas, poor Hamlet — now presumed to be overweight
Our obsession with obesity extends to Shakespeare — with a literal reading suggesting the Prince of Denmark was decidedly stout by Paul Levy on the Spectator website on August 3, 2019.

Portrait of Hamlet, oil on canvas, by Boston artist William Morris Hunt, executed about 1864.