Category: Science and Health

Hospital visits increasing

June 30, 2007 | 13 comments

A reader just alerted me to an article put out by MSNBC.com, reporting that “Hospital and doctor visits in the United States have surged by 20 percent in the past five years…” I read the piece with dismay for it

More on the secret

February 28, 2007 | 4 comments

I enjoyed reading the below excerpt on “the wonderful secret” from a Christian Science lecture by Irving Tomlinson sent in by a reader. I have learned how to make Science a thing of life, not words, and I am going

What do you trust?

January 22, 2007 | 1 comment

Have you ever glanced through an issue of National Inquirer or Star magazine? If so, did you believe everything you saw on their pages? If you are a reader outside the US, you may be unfamiliar with these tabloids, but

No death

December 1, 2006 | No comments yet

I was having dinner with a man a couple of weeks ago who said he had died twice and come back to life over the years. The first time he was being operated on and died during the procedure. “But,”

Giving praise

November 22, 2006 | 6 comments

Found an interesting web page on the value of praising children for work well done. This paragraph caught my eye on the importance of not qualifying your words of support, but ensuring they ring with sincerity: Avoid giving praise with