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  • It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

Posted: September 28th, 2011

“….it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.”

- Macbeth

Shakespeare’s bitter, frustrated, yet eloquent rant on life…who among us has not felt like this at times? There are so many things we don’t know, so much of life that indeed seems random and meaningless. Yet also so much that is wonderment and joy. The Jewish new year begins this week, and as part of the ritual we ask God to write our names in the book of life for the upcoming year.

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  • I can't give you brains but I can give you a diploma.

Posted: September 14th, 2011

"I can't give you brains but I can give you a diploma."

(the wizard of Oz to the scarecrow)

A wry but all to often prescient comment on how we measure intelligence. When my children were young, a wonderful animated movie was released called the Secret of NIMH. The main characters were rats that had been the subjects of an experimental drug. They became very smart and escaped from an NIH lab. Two films this summer; Limitless and Rise of the Planet of the Apes are different takes on a similar theme. Both films are about drugs that make those who take them smarter. Not just a little smarter, but orders of magnitude smarter.

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  • Politics and Poker

Posted: September 2, 2011

“politics and poker, politics and poker; could make a guy become a heavy smoker”

(Fiorello)

So the machine minions whine in the brilliant Runyonesque musical based on the legendary reign of the La Guardia machine in NY. Of course actually being a heavy smoker is a practical impossibility in today’s no smoking world; but politics and politicians are no different.

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  • It's true, it's true...

Posted: November 3, 2010

“It’s true, it’s true
the Crown has made it clear
the climate must be perfect all the year..”

Camelot

After listening to (a seemingly) endless stream of political promises (close to that cited above) the election is finally over, and Washington will return to the gridlock from whence it came before the election. Nothing will change. The Senate would not or could not pass anything that the House proposed before, and that will be the case for the next two years. The yelling about who is to blame will be a little different, but the end results will be the same.

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  • “Primum non nocerum” (first do no harm)

Posted: October 14, 2010

Our ALS team recently presented a panel on neural cell therapy transplantation at a Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine conference in Detroit. We are hoping to post access to the tape of the presentation in the not too distant future on our web site. I believe it offers a fascinating look into the science and practical medical issues involved in treating diseases of the brain and spinal cord with cell therapy, and when it is available I recommend that anyone with an interest view it. One of the surprises to most in the audience though, was the presentation of Dr. Jonathan Glass, our site Principle Investigator at Emory.

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