What counts as a medical intervention?
In London 1854, there was a cholera outbreak, and through the detective work of John Snow, it was discovered there was a polluted well, which when closed contained the outbreak. …
School of the 21st Century (21C)
Dang, a much better name than OneSchool. Yale School of Medicine Edward Zigler Center in Child Development’s School of the 21st Century is a program to provide communities with resources …
365, children at risk don’t take days off
In medicine, we have a phrase “sick people don’t take the day off.” Similarly, children’s need for safety, structure, and learning also doesn’t take days off, let alone a few …
Compersion, better than it sounds
This might seem a bit of a contrarian opinion, but I’ve felt from quite a young age that a lot of jealousy is misplaced and counter to true love. If …
Who’s doing the listening?
I invite you to sit however you find comfortable. And as you settle in, take a few full breaths. Become aware of how your body feels resting in space. Perhaps …
The Universe and the ways we talk about it
I find Ken Wilber’s 4 quadrants of integral theory an elegant way of connecting apparently distinct aspects of the universe and our experience of it. What strikes me is the …
Levels of Description
All knowledge comes from the human – zak stein Each of the scientific and intellectual disciplines, from chemistry and biology, to psychology and sociology, is a unique but partial description …
How much do we care?
Literally, in a quantitative sense. How much do we care about something? Is it possible to measure such a thing? Are there proximal corollaries that are meaningful? If we are …
Thank you for taking care of Youself
For a long while I struggled with how to respond when someone politely and sincerely declined an invitation. “No big deal”, “Forget about it”, etc never seemed to do justice. …
Young enough to not have remembered
My wife had an amazing opportunity to work with an fantastic human being, Astrid Castro, and her organization Adoption Mosaic. I quickly learned how ignorant I was to people’s questions …