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Socioautoimmune Disease

Thirty trillion occupants

Bill Bryson is a marvelous writer. And a blazingly curious thinker. The Body: A Guide for Occupants, has kept me from sleep on more than one evening. Here's one of his nuggets: It seems that the human body contains about 30,000,000,000,000 living cells. That sounded like a lot to me so I tried counting to...
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My Very Best Friends I Have Never Met

"They could not live without petting."

About 900 years ago, more or less, the king of Sicily - a fellow named Frederick II - decided he could conduct an experiment. We know that, among other darknesses, people with too much power lose a couple of important things: Empathy and Impulse Control. Fred was no exception. He surmised...
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Near enemies and the Mouth

Both Brené Brown and Louise Penny highlight the idea of near enemies. These are emotions which masquerade as positive emotions but are not. So they fool us, and they fool those around us. Pity is the near enemy of compassion. Attachment is the near enemy of love. Indifference is the near enemy of equanimity. To...
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