The impact of Covid 19 has made it hard to believe that another year is about to end. Those who lived through the past few years can reflect on how drastically life changed. Almost everyone you talk to, regardless of age, seems to wonder where the time has gone. Aside...
The term gaslighting is a colloquialism, loosely defined as manipulating someone to make them question their own reality. The term apparently derives from the title of the 1944 film Gaslight, though the term did not gain popular currency in English until the...
Most readers will be old enough to remember “two weeks to flatten the curve.” This was over two years ago. Finally, most of the world is living with Covid. Even Anthony Fauci has had to (grudgingly) concede that the pandemic phase is ending, and we are in the endemic...
It is easy to tell when a sporting event is over. Either a prerequisite number of wins have been attained (e.g. tennis) or a finish line has been crossed. In time-based games, a siren or bell sounds to inform players, umpires and the crowd that time is up, and the...
As Led Zeppelin said “you know sometimes words have two meanings” Words do mean different things to different people. The dictionary defines science as “…knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation, experimentation and systematic study”. It...
The old Chinese saying about living in interesting times continues to be apt in 2021. At time of writing different countries and even states or regions within countries have different approaches to Covid 19. There are currently eight vaccines at variable stages of...
