Backward Mutters

  • You speak of ‘the curriculum [you] impose,’ but I deny that you have the right to impose anything. I am passing through this place, headed for the next stage of my life — possibly graduate education in some form or another, more probably a job — and I am paying…

  • The high cost of living with diabetes

    Diabetes is a costly chronic condition in the United States, medi- cal costs and productivity loss attributable to diabetes were es- timated to be $245 billion in 2012.1 In this issue brief, for indi- viduals covered by employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) and younger than age 65, per capita spending for people…

  • allthingseurope: Mount Athos, Greece by Nico Gotsis

  • Singing Love Songs to Addicts (and Earth People, Too)

    David Z on addiction and the Johan Hari’s Huff Po article and Ted Talk. Singing Love Songs to Addicts (and Earth People, Too)

  • Labyrinths

    A labyrinth is not a maze. There is nothing to be solved, no dead ends meant to entrap the walker. Labyrinths have a clear way in and out. Yet the small amount of concentration required to stay on the path, combined with the repetitive nature of following the pattern, is…