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For an assignment in one of my classes this term I gave a presentation on IUDs to a bunch of nurse practitioners who work in the Multnomah County teen health clinics. I did a PowerPoint presentation, and after every few slides I inserted one with a question. The idea was to give prizes to whoever [...]

Another rerun… sorry, nursing school is HARD!!! I’ll write something fresh just as soon as I can spare a few brain cells, I promise. Meanwhile… This essay was written as a followup to the essay Valuable Information for my Family and Friends, concerning how to protect yourself from alien abductions. Enjoy. Darn. It turns out [...]

A couple of weeks ago my psych prof Dr. Carlson mentioned, as sort of a brief post-script at the end of our section on Sigmund Freud, a guy named Wilhelm Reich. Dr. Reich was a Freudian analyst who thought that there should be a way to detect the libido energy that Freud theorized powered the [...]

I received the following message from Mike Menkin today. He thanked me for posting his website (stopabductions.com) and offered some additional websites and information for me to share with you. The photograph he mentions is definitely worth a look! Subject: thought screen helmet Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:06:42 -0700 From: Mike Menkin Organization: Lasentec [...]

Midterms are looming, so I’m going to resort to entertaining my blog fans (yes, both of you!) with reruns for a few days, until I have time to think again. (I’m doing a lot of thinking, actually, but unless you enjoy reading about stoichiometry and redox reactions and limiting reactants and such, I’m pretty sure [...]

I was reading in my psych text recently about how back in pre-Freudian times when women suffered from “hysteria” they decided that it was caused by a “wandering womb”. The root word of “hysteria” is from a Greek word that means “uterus”. The malady had various manifestations, including spontaneous blindness, partial or even full paralysis, [...]