Geek Lit Etc.

Medical ethics, mental illness and a physician's responsibilities to alleviate suffering are called into question in Anil Ananthaswamy...

Environmentalists have a terrible time with energy production. Coal, nuclear, wind, solar, natural gas-each falls in and out of favor in tur...

The Non-Fiction Shopping List 2012 It's the beginning of the holiday shopping season, and it's time to start checking peoples...

South Korea, like Japan, has had a renaissance in the last century or so. With a national attitude of always striving to achieve, the small ...

All countries evolve. A person born a generation ago in America has seen a revolution in social issues. In the last 50 years, the US has see...

Who owns the biological waste that gets left behind at hospitals and clinics every day? What, exactly, defines informed consent and when doe...

As much as Japan as modernized and westernized in the last fifty years, there is still something of the classical there.  New apartment buil...

People complain about not having enough opportunities to advance themselves.  Generally what they mean by that is the quality of educatio...

Japan has had to be a very structured society for centuries.  A relatively small country with very little in the way of natural resources (e...

There are some decisions that set the course of your life forever.  Picking a major in college.  Getting married.  Quitting a job to follow ...

Many memoir writers are not terribly good at really being honest with the reader. While writing a memoir should be a reflective exercise, ...

Over here in the US , we’re very luck that we border fairly reasonable countries.  We had some issues with Cuba a generation ago, and Mexi...