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How dementia makes it harder to offer end-of-life comfort

04-09-2016 21:54 via washingtonpost.com

Families worry that their loved ones are in pain but can’t communicate about it.

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Shrinking Violets by Joe Moran – review

04-09-2016 11:00

A cultural historian looks at fascinating stories of the socially awkward, from Cicero to MorrisseyShyness: a word to be whispered, these days. If the Victorians saw it as an unwavering disposition, a force all but impossible to beat, our own age tends to regard it – rather more dubiously, in my opinion – as a condition to be cured, whether with the platitudes of self help, or with drugs such as Prozac and Zoloft (for this, alas, we may trace some of the blame back to the stricter Fr

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Moby Dick and gravity: how our understanding of truth evolves

04-09-2016 07:00

As time passes, knowledge increases. Chuck Klosterman explains why things we hold to be true might not be after allWhen you ask smart people if they believe there are major ideas currently accepted by the culture at large that will be proven false, they will say, “There must be. That phenomenon has been experienced by every generation who’s ever lived.” Yet offer those same people a list of contemporary ideas that might fit that description, and they’ll be tempted to reje

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Cheer up! It might not happen – personality quiz

04-09-2016 07:00

Some of us are ‘glass half full’ types, others tend to see it the other way. But are you an optimist or a pessimist? Here’s how to find outIn percentage terms, how likely do you think you are to be diagnosed with cancer at some point in the future?
The average rate is 50%. Would you like to move your guess up or down?Now, how likely do you think you are to suffer a domestic burglary over the next 12 months?
The average rate is 3%. Continue reading...

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