The Sun in Poetry
I’ll tell you how the sun rose,— A ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks […]
Delay Cognitive Decline: Learn a 2nd Language!
I just attended the 60th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association at Columbia University, where the first plenary speaker, Ellen Bialystock, gave a talk titled, “Bilingualism: Consequences for Mind
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Parkinson’s Disease: Two Perspectives
1. This is what I think comes to many people’s mind when they hear that someone has Parkinson’s disease. They envision an elderly person, cloaked in stuffy clothes, confined to a
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Throwback Thursdays Art
Every Thursday, as part of my personal “enriched environment” initiative, I post a piece of art, usually from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which recently released online some 400,000 high-resolution
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Coffee and Parkinson’s Disease
Any way you look at it (here, here, and, um, here…), coffee seems to be a good thing for people with Parkinson’s disease, and for people who don’t have Parkinson’s
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The Sun in Poetry
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host,
How You Type: Early Indicator of Parkinson’s?
Smithsonian.com reports that MIT researchers believe the way you press the keys when you type might be a predictor of Parkinson’s disease. The issue is not how many words you
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The Sun in Poetry
As I Grew Older It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun— My
Enriched Environment. Baby Boomers. Real Mad Men. Jingles.
If you grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, click here for some enriched-environment throwback Madison Avenue advertising jingles, arranged by Lester Lanin and recorded by his pop-swing band in
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Throwback Thursdays Art
Every Thursday, as part of my personal “enriched environment” initiative, I post a piece of art, usually from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which recently released online some 400,000 high-resolution
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