Relationships and Going Places
Women’s Health Research; Progress, Pitfalls, and Promise
Even though slightly over half of the US population is female, apart from reproductive concerns, medical research historically has neglected the health needs of women. [The committee] finds that women’s health research has contributed to significant progress in addressing some conditions, while other conditions have seen only moderate progress or even little or no progress over the past 20 years. more »
Making Movies
I learned how perception creates reality, how our inner understanding programs what is seen in the outer world much as a movie reel projects pictures on a screen. And just now, as I write this, an adult far from babyhood chronologically, do I accept that I am the producer of my own movies. more »
Life Long Pursuits: Defining a Birder
Wordless and fascinated, I shared the porch with these frenetic birds for well over an hour, watching bare-eyed as they performed their dance of life before me. It was like being on the set of my own personal Discovery channel program. I would have watched all day. And I would surely have liked to ask them who was going to claim that scraggly, barely usable nest. more »
Science, Travel and History: Never Lost
online visitors can learn to see the world as it appeared to the ancient Polynesians. Virtual voyage instruction, master navigators “talking story” in the Hawaiian tradition, an online planetarium with a tour of the Hawaiian night sky, podcasts more »






