The Speed of Life

Our sense of time in aging.

Joseph Mazur

Understanding Putin's Next Steps

When a leader of a nuclear country embraces the ultimate war threat, we had better pay attention.

Facts Can Be Undermined by Ambiguities of Meaning

Are our beliefs influenced simply by our culture, our intelligence, or general familiarities?

Why Nuclear Fear Is in the Air

The fear of nuclear war has Europeans building bomb shelters and buying potassium iodide pills. Is it time for nucleomituphobia therapy?

The Madness of Nuclear Threats

The weakest nuclear weapon today is capable of far more destruction than what followed the Hiroshima bombing 77 years ago. If one dropped, we'd all need therapy.

Will Cold-War Nucleomituphobia Return?

A former mayor of Hiroshima discusses the traumas of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors and renewed anxieties after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Are Mushroom-Cloud Nightmares Returning?

Wars bring anxiety, but a nuclear-power's leader saying that hindering his invasion could lead to consequences "that you have never encountered" brings chills.

Circadian Rhythm Connections to Alzheimer’s

Is there a definitive connection between poor sleep habits and Alzheimer’s disease in older people?

At What Age Do You Begin to Think About Your End?

Age thoughts are always with us to keep us aware of the time we have left.

Is Distance Healing Possible?

How does one begin to research whether or not an ill person heals due to the prayers of strangers thousands of miles away?

Do You Feel Lucky?

Why do seemingly reasonable people gamble with death when the odds against them are overwhelming?

The Thing We Call SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Alive

There seems to be a widespread view that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is alive. Some viruses are. SARS-CoV-2 is not one of them.

The Oh-My-God Variant Is Our Trial-by-Fire

Preliminary data confirms that Omicron will be the next superspreader but not as deadly as other variants. Could it give us enough immunity to get us to herd?

The Oh-My-God Variant Marches On

We might not be thinking about Omicron, or writing about it, correctly. It could actually turn out to be the variant that saves us.

Does Truth Really Come In Shades of Grey?

What constitutes proof and evidence of truth, and the experiential sensations of a belief that comes from familiarity?

Does Empathy Fade When Witnessing Distant Suffering?

Do sympathy and empathy diminish as a function of human face remoteness?

The Pandemic Clock Mirage

Every generation lives through at least one pan-troubling experience. This pandemic is one. But for those not infected, the days are a comparatively minor disturbance.

Save Daylight Saving Time

Sunlight, even feebly radiating from the low winter horizon, helps to keep us emotionally healthy. Why do we mess with it in November?

The Disappearing Atom Bomb Nightmare

What horrors of history do we remember? Which do we forget? Which do our neurotransmitters bury for protection against psychological problems?

One Thousand Nights to Daylight

As with all difficult times, we yearn for an end. Sometimes we just have to be satisfied with challenges being at least under control.

Why Are We Still Alive?

In this era of COVID-19 problems, can an angry reaction to another person’s opinion reflect insecurity of one’s belief?

Uncovering the Mystery of Tachysensia

Symptoms of tachysensia are frightening and most common in children and adolescents, who either outgrow the syndrome completely or experience it far less frequently.

Does a Young Child Have Temporal Awareness?

The young child is slow to develop an awareness of time as experiences get pigeonholed in hippocampus cells to be orderly recorded as the past.

Are We Misunderstanding Vaccines?

Could it be that media bombardment of Covid information has twisted our rational thinking about vaccine efficacy?

Does Anyone Know Time?

Anxieties of the last century are different from those of this. How has the public’s sense of time changed from the last century to this one?

The Good News About SARS-CoV-2, So Far

We have no SARS-CoV-2 variants of “high consequence” yet. To avoid that highly catastrophic consequence, the G-7 and the UN must take a more active role.

Are We Misunderstanding the Mission of Vaccines?

mRNA vaccines prevent symptomatic and severe Delta variant illness, but what if infected persons, vaccinated and not, carry equal quantities of virus?

Are We Losing Our Intrinsic Wisdom of Truth?

We tend to think our smartphones are always smarter than we are. Do our phones know facts better than our gut feelings?

How Flawed Research Hurts the Public

When a peer-reviewed journal published a false, flawed article about COVID vaccines, the damage was swift.

To Get the Unvaccinated Vaccinated

What would it take to get vaccination-hesitant people vaccinated? If a few of the 3.6 million survivors were to speak out, we could bring COVID-19 down to relative harmlessness.

Troubles Ahead for the Unvaccinated

Databanks hold answers to lingering health conditions after COVID-19. From what researchers have found, there are more reasons than ever to be vaccinated as soon as possible.

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