70 years ago, July 16-17, 1942, Paris

Click here to watch“From exclusion to deportation beginning” via YouTube, which explains the historical and political responsibilities that led to the arrest of tens of thousands of innocent Jews there including children, their internment and deportation to extermination camps in Poland from 1933 to 1945.

For more information on this video vist www.realisonsleurope.fr 

Please note that this video is in French.

Marilyn’s last interview

Click Here to View:   A rare TV documentary with audio clips from Marilyn Monroe”s last interview only weeks before her death in 1962, Part 1

Click Here to View: Marilyn Monroe”s last interview only weeks before her death in 1962, Part 2.

Click Here to Read: Tortured Marilyn Monroe’s own account of her inner turmoil revealed for first time on this website.

Click Here to Read: Marilyn Monroe on the couch on this website.

Gelernter’s “America Lite” with an Introduction by Nathan Szajnberg

Gelernter’s “America Lite”

David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale University, was a victim of the Unabomber who was “on to” Gelernter’s innovative ideas about how computers work and can work.

Recovering from being wounded by the mailed bomb, Gelernter proceeded to broaden his perspectives in his subsequent books. His newest, “America Lite,” sounds like an update on Alan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, his complaint and lament at how Universities are failing in their task to broaden critical thinking.
Here is a short interview and also some brief words by him. (He has an apt name, which in Yiddish means “learned one” or “educated.”)

Click Here to View:  Video of an Interview with Galertner on the Fox Business News website on June 26, 2012. Continue reading Gelernter’s “America Lite” with an Introduction by Nathan Szajnberg

“Richard Feynman on Cargo-Cult Science: What Psychoanalysis can learn from this Nobel-prizing physicist (and Bongo player)”

Click here to listen to: Feynman’s address to a Cal-Tech graduating class about the integrity of science (and scientists).

He reminds of the cargo cult in the South Pacific. Years after WWII, the island natives missed the largess of the USA’s military landings. So, they developed a detailed ritual including setting up fires along the old runways, fashioning models of radio receivers from wood and hoping that the planes would return. They didn’t.

Feyman speaks to an intellectual integrity. He says, “Nature’s phenomena will agree…or disagree with your work… (One must have) the integrity not to fool yourself…”

Here–not fooling ourselves–is a reasonable tack for psychoanalysts. Feynman speaks plainly. But, listen to what he imparts. (And yes, he was a fine bongo player, even performing with the Tuva singers.)

N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor