Click Here to View and Listen To: Woody Guthrie Sings Hobo’s Lullaby on YouTube
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Evidence piles up that Bush administration got many pre-9/11 warnings
Cameron Diaz voices Sigmund Freud
The Strange Story Of The Man Behind ‘Strange Fruit’
Click here to View: The story behind Billie Holiday‘s “Strange Fruit” on YouTube.
Click here to read or listen to The Strange Story Of The Man Behind ‘Strange Fruit’ by Elizabeth Blair from NPR on September 5, 2012.
One of Billie Holiday’s most iconic songs is “Strange Fruit,” a haunting protest against the inhumanity of racism. Many people know that the man who wrote the song was inspired by a photograph of a lynching. But they might not realize that he’s also tied to another watershed moment in America’s history.
Chasing perfection: A look behind the scenes of the pre-teen world of competitive cheerleading
Psychoanalysis and its Borders
Click Here to View: Psychoanalysis and its Borders, edited by Giuseppe Leo (2012), Video on YouTube.
What is psychotherapy anyway? A dialogue between psychoanalysts
September 1, 1931 by W.H. Auden Read by Dylan Thomas
Click Here to Listen To: W.H. Auden — September 1, 1939 (read by Dylan Thomas) on YouTube.
Click Here to Read: Beliefs; After Sept. 11, a 62-year-old poem by Auden drew new attention. Not all of it was favorable. By Peter Steinfels in The New York Times on December 1, 2001.
Click Here to Read: An Analysis of W. H. Auden’s September 1, 1939 by Michael Heuer on the Yahoo! Contributor Network on January 10, 2008 .
SEPTEMBER 1, 1939
by W.H. Auden
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
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Circumcision benefits outweigh risks, but parents should choose, pediatricians say
Click here to read “Circumcision benefits outweigh risks, but parents should choose, pediatricians say” by Maggie Fox from NBC News on August 27, 2012.
Circumcising baby boys has clear health benefits and parents should feel free to have it done, but they shouldn’t feel pressured to do so, the top U.S. pediatricians group said on Monday.
Decoding the Brain’s Cacophony
Click here to read: Decoding the Brain’s Cacophony by Benedict Carey from The New York Times on October 31, 2011, which tells the story of Michael S. Gazzaniga’s series of studies that revealed the brain’s split personality, the division of labor between its left and right hemispheres.
Dr. Gazzaniga is a psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Today, in lectures and a new book, he is spelling out another kind of cautionary tale — a serious one, about the uses of neuroscience in society, particularly in the courtroom.