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One of the privileges of working in the early development of a field is that most of the pioneers are still around, and we get to know them all personally. We have lost Neil Miller, Chuck Stroebel, and Barbara Brown, and now Marjorie Toomim, but most of the people from the early days of the […]

With the State of the Union speech coming up shortly, it’s not a bad time for us to do the same with regard to our discipline of neurofeedback. When people are asked about the prospects for society at large, they tend to assess it somewhat more negatively than society deserves, but when they are asked […]

I had chosen this topic to end the year well before the recent tsunami brought home to us the disconnect between risks that we face–as societies, as a global community, as a species, and as individuals–and how we actually live our lives. This is a follow-up to the previous newsletter on Triage. What got me […]

The amount of true foreign aid (i.e., non-military development support) given by the United States is now down to about one tenth of one percent of our GNP (0.13% according to one account). At such levels there is a complete mismatch between resources and needs, so one might well use the idea of triage to […]

The issue of the states’ authority to regulate medical usage of marijuana is currently before the Supreme Court, at a time when the chief architect for the reconstruction of a viable body of “states’ rights” is at home recuperating from surgery. What delicious ironies abound when those on the Court most strongly bent in favor […]

Flying into Zurich one is immediately impressed with the orderliness of the country. Nothing appears to be out of place, even out in the fields, around the barns, and along the sides of the roads. I was reminded of Oslo, Norway, which comes close in this regard. I had a great reception in Switzerland, which […]