Sunday's Washington Post featured two particularly compelling articles on the front page of the Outlook section on the subject of Health. The first, "The Dying of the Light," discusses the changing nature of health care and death in the United States, and is written by Craig Bowron, a physician in Minnesota. Agree or disagree with his opinions, but the article raises some interesting questions about the quality of life and its relationship to health. To read the article, click here.
The second article on the page is about the future of health care and its costs, written by medical doctor and Post writer David Brown. Here's a sample..
We are on a collision course between our wish to live longer, healthier lives and our capacity to pay for that wish. Whether we can somehow avoid the collision is perhaps the most important domestic issue of this century. From now on, health care costs will be up there with globalization, terrorism and climate change as a force shaping our world.To read the article, click here.
Some new research that has popped up in a number of places involves the ubiquitous falling shape game Tetris and its relationship with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)--in short, researchers think that playing Tetris could diminish PTSD episodes in soldiers. For a better understanding of this link, read an article here.
While this next article is a bit old, I remember reading it and being completely enthralled with the possibilities it discussed. The June 2008 edition of Wired Magazine featured an article exploring how massive amounts of data (and the computers that can make sense of them) could make theories and models go the way of the dodo bird. Entitled "The End of Theory," it's worth the time to check out. To read the article, click here.
If you have a suggestion for some good pre-spring semester reading, tell us in the comments section. We'll talk with you again soon.
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