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The Non-Fiction Novel: Is it an art form or was Truman Capote a fraud?
Full disclosure. I had adored Capote’s writing and have a signed postcard from him sent from his Hampton’s home. In it, he indicates he...
Oct 7, 20194 min read
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Porn and the World of AI: Computer sensuality enters the world of adult entertainment
Pornography is a multi-million-dollar, or multi-billion-dollar industry, depending on your source. And the industry is undergoing...
Oct 3, 20194 min read
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The "Evil" Therapist: Protecting yourself from those who might harm you
“While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” Dostoevsky Evil is a word most...
Sep 26, 20196 min read
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The AI Rabbit Hole of Writing: A personal journey with AI manuscript review
Writing, we are told by some of the most famous and successful authors, is passion, a necessity, the staff of their lives and something...
Sep 26, 20194 min read
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Mozart in Your Mind: AI's ability to score the music your brain is creating
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed everything in his head, or so the story goes. Biographies and letters written by the musical genius...
Sep 20, 20194 min read
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Desperate for Attention and Dying: Advertising, vaping and the insidious wish to belong
Marketing has its geniuses just as science. Two stellar names stand out for entirely different reasons, but with the same goal; selling a...
Sep 13, 20195 min read
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Face Off: AI’s facial identity tricks and its future uses
Quasimodo (Hunchback of Notre Dame), or Joseph Merrick (Elephant Man) would have no trouble getting dates in today’s software-intensive...
Sep 12, 20194 min read
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Never Say Die: Holograms bring the dead back to life forever
The 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz,” had an element of prediction in it that no one saw at the time and few of us see it now. The Wizard,...
Sep 12, 20195 min read
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The Death of Language: How our AI technology is fast becoming our undoing. Or is it?
Language may become obsolete as we mentally morph into a world of brain-created visual “language;” a world without words. Psychologists...
Sep 11, 20196 min read
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"The AI Program Will See You Now:" Healthcare's future in a world dominated by software
Machines will replace eighty percent of all doctors in the healthcare system of the future. The startling statement in the article in...
Sep 1, 20194 min read
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The Cure podcast
I did a show on my book, Sleep, Insomnia, Stress: What you don't know can hurt you, and I think you might want to hear it. It's at:...
Sep 1, 20191 min read
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Bias, Racist Robots and AI: The problems in the coding that coders fail to see
What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist. D. H. Lawrence But what if the coder working on artificial...
Aug 30, 20194 min read
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Stalked by Fears. Will Virtual Reality Be the Answer We Need?
Clink, clink, clink, the sound was relentless as the bullets hit the outer skin of the armored vehicle. Boom! A roadside bomb had...
Aug 28, 20193 min read
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Do Carrots Scream? Vegetables may not be as silent as we think and may “talk” to each other
“How do you know that carrots don’t scream when you pull them out of the ground?” The student in the biology lecture hall was now the...
Aug 26, 20194 min read
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Igniting a Mass Shooter
The first eight months of 2019 in America have been irretrievably scarred by the indiscriminate killings of people and kids attending...
Aug 25, 20197 min read
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Suicide Myths and Jeffrey Epstein
Several common myths exist regarding suicide and youths and they often incline even mental health professionals to believe them even...
Aug 25, 20196 min read
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Killing Our Kids with Apples: The Nazi Connection
What was it that, as a kid, your mom or your aunt told you to do when you first entered their home? It was, “Have a piece of fruit!” The...
Aug 25, 20198 min read
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Home Alone or Not: Elderly in the America of the Future
A walk on the sidewalk near my home would prove to be more than just a refreshing day out of doors. I’d walked around this area many...
Aug 25, 20197 min read
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How to Clean Your Brain: No Soap for You
Each day you wake up, swing your feet over the bed and take that first yawn of the morning and you are creating garbage. Yes, garbage and...
Aug 25, 20193 min read
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Docs Don’t Know Diet/Nutrition: The State of Medical Care Today
The television industry knows where there’s gold in fat and they are plumbing it in shows such as “My 600-Lb Life,” “My Diet Is Better...
Aug 25, 20195 min read
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