Especially my dad, who had a demanding government job. My parents had precious little time for one-on-one. the second youngest in a gaggle of five girls. I’ve always been intrigued by their apparently smart behavior, whether learned or innate. I also admire their resourcefulness and pluck. I admire all the usual things about them. She answered questions from Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook. But what of birds? The science writer Jennifer Ackerman offers a lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence in her new book, “ The Genius of Birds.” There have long been hints of bird smarts, but it’s become an active field of scientific inquiry, and Ackerman serves as tour guide. (Though there are days when we have to wonder.) After Homo sapiens, most people might answer chimpanzees, and then maybe dogs and dolphins. What are the most intelligent creatures on the planet? Humans come first.
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The book explores the many newer therapies that are available to modern psychiatrists. However, van der Kolk was open to more unorthodox approaches and willing to explore options. Even when the evidence showed this wasn’t the case, many medical professionals were slow to look at other less convenient therapies. When psychiatric drugs were first discovered, they were seen as the panacea for all mental health problems. These therapies were revolutionary when first discovered and many were helped, but others were not. He begins by explaining the benefits and disadvantages of the oldest known therapies for trauma: talk therapy (psychotherapy) and psychiatric drugs. van der Kolk focuses on the ongoing effects of trauma on the mind, brain and body. The subject matter is complex as trauma comes in many different forms - child abuse, domestic violence, and suffering as the result of war, natural disasters and traffic accidents. He has authored several books and numerous scientific articles. He was a professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School and later founded a trauma center in Boston. The author, Bessel van der Kolk, has spent 30 years researching, studying and speaking with people who have been deeply affected by trauma. The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma is a thought-provoking book about the ongoing effects of trauma. The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma The “tiny island” where the story is set has a police department, ambulance service, health clinic, and multiple daily ferry runs taking commuters to work and kids to school in the city on the mainland, plus “abandoned military fortifications at the far end of the island” where teenagers are rumored to gather. In Mary Kubica’s new novel, The Other Mrs., we get the glimpse of winter. In the most daring literary excursions, a glimpse of winter. It can be an idyllic summer paradise of sailboats and cottages, or a windswept, lonely, sublimely frightening instance of rugged beauty. Park Row Books, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2020įor centuries, there’s been nothing like an island on the remote coast of remote Maine to spark the imaginations of writers and artists, both native and non-native. In Wyndam's classically elegant, calm style, this novel explores the arrival of a collective intelligence on earth that threatens to eliminate mankind. The nightmare that descends on Midwich has dire implications for the rest of the world whatever dwells there is sowing the seeds for a master race of ruthless and inhumane creatures who are bent on nothing less than absolute and total domination. Then, in ways that are difficult to pin down, the village seems changed-not quite the same place that it was before. The story begins with Richard and Janet Gayford who have spent the night of September 26 in London, returning to their home in Midwich the following day. John Wyndham's 1957 book The Midwich Cuckoos is better known by the more sensational title of its two film adaptations, Village of the Damned. Print The Midwich Cuckoos: Now a major Sky series starring Keeley Hawes and Max Beesley He may be hot as sin, but there's no way I'm going to let some hotshot hockey player play me.īut I may have underestimated just how good of a player Parker is because he begins chipping away at the ice around my heart despite myself.Ĭindy Crews is everything I never even knew I dreamed of. The right winger for the team my dad coaches sets his sights on me. With my dad being a hockey coach all my life, I've had enough hockey to last me for ten lifetimes.īut then he happens. I swore I'd never fall for a hockey player. I hate hockey and everything that comes with it, especially the way men will put the sport above their own families. I’ll do whatever it takes to prove to her that she’s mine-even if it means stalking her. Her blue eyes are as light as an Arctic winter-and just as icy-because not only is she the coach's daughter, but she wants nothing to do with hockey or hockey players. She's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Hockey is in my blood, and my career is the most important thing in my life. I play right ring, and I’m the team’s star forward. Emma’s instalove stories are filled with heat, passion and happily ever afters. Overview: Emma Bray writes intense, steamy romances with possessive alpha males who’ll stop at nothing to claim the women they want. Stalker Sportsmen series (#1,3-4) by Emma Bray Warped hallucinations are indeed afoot in the world of AI, however – but it’s not the bots that are having them it’s the tech CEOs who unleashed them, along with a phalanx of their fans, who are in the grips of wild hallucinations, both individually and collectively. How else could bots like Bing and Bard be tripping out there in the ether? By appropriating a word commonly used in psychology, psychedelics and various forms of mysticism, AI’s boosters, while acknowledging the fallibility of their machines, are simultaneously feeding the sector’s most cherished mythology: that by building these large language models, and training them on everything that we humans have written, said and represented visually, they are in the process of birthing an animate intelligence on the cusp of sparking an evolutionary leap for our species. That’s true – but why call the errors “hallucinations” at all? Why not algorithmic junk? Or glitches? Well, hallucination refers to the mysterious capacity of the human brain to perceive phenomena that are not present, at least not in conventional, materialist terms. It is a testament to the resilience of nature, and a test of humanity's willingness to live again beside the ultimate symbol of wildness. Heart of a Lion is a story of one heroic creature pitting instinct against towering odds, coming home to a society deeply divided over his return. Along the way, the lion traverses lands with people gunning for his kind, as well as those championing his cause. William Stolzenburg retraces his two-year journey-from his embattled birthplace in the Black Hills, across the Great Plains and the Mississippi River, through Midwest metropolises and remote northern forests, to his tragic finale upon Connecticut's Gold Coast. It was the farthest landbound trek ever recorded for a wild animal in America, by a barely weaned teenager venturing solo through hostile terrain. The lion was three years old, with a DNA trail embarking from the Black Hills of South Dakota on a cross-country odyssey eventually passing within thirty miles of New York City. But a more fantastic scenario of facts soon unfolded. Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor from a bygone century when lions last roamed the eastern United States. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion. The creature appeared as something out of New England's forgotten past. Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. You may consciously sense these attachments or spiritual presence that is not of highest vibration and needs to be released from your energy field or you may just feel angry, tired, depleted or 'not yourself' sometimes. Whether as an wanna be sociopath and not want to feel the feelings that I harbor inside for no one to see, or whether its from an Empaths stand point and I need to protect myself form the true feelings people actually have for each other. its about energy invading my space and causing unwelcome feelings to come into my nice little cocoon bubble. I do not wish to experience the reality they live in, but when I get near them I get sucked in so quickly that I can barely hold on to the rails and come out alive. I constantly lack boundaries around my elders in my family. Why? Because as kids we were told that our elders are more powerful then us. Unhappy aunt's and nasty uncles tend to have a way to get into our energy fields and wreak havoc. Xmas is a perfect time for lower vibrational energies to spread like wild fire. This is a pretty deep concept if you let your mind go that far. As the two men prepare for the day's events, Sam Weller tells Mr. The next morning, election excitement is at fever pitch. Pickwick to listen to old editorials, while Mrs. Pott treats her husband with condescending sarcasm. Pott, who invites Pickwick and Winkle to stay at his home. Perker tells them about the underhanded tactics of both parties to gain votes, and he introduces them to the editor of the Blue paper, a pompous windbag named Mr. Perker, now an election adviser for the Blues. Pickwick tells his companions to yell with the largest mob. The Pickwickians arrive in the middle of a shouting contest between a mob of Blues and a mob of Buffs, and Mr. Each party does its utmost to frustrate and harass the opposition. At Eatanswill, a noisy, contentious election is taking place between the Blues and the Buffs. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. |