The post-antibiotic apocalypse is nigh
Antibiotics are a bedrock of modern medicine. But in the very near future, we’re going to have to learn to live without them once again. And it’s going to get nasty Just 65 years ago, David Livermore’s paternal grandmother died following an operation to remove her appendix. It didn’t go well, but it was not the surgery that killed her. She succumbed to a series of infections that the pre …
Discovering How Deficiency in the BDNF Gene Leads to Anxiety Disorders – A Talk by Dr. Francis Lee

The Mel Brooks Collection (Blazing Saddles / Young Frankenstein / Silent Movie / Robin Hood: Men in Tights / To Be or Not to Be / History of the World, Part 1 / The Twelve Chairs / High Anxiety) $35.99 Eight-disc set includes “The Twelve Chairs” (1970), “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Silent Movie,” “High Anxiety,” “History of the World, Part I,” “To Be or Not to Be (1983),” and “Robin Hood: Men in Tights.”…

High Anxiety $6.32 An affectionate homage more than a spoof of Alfred Hitchcock thrillers, Mel Brooks’s hilarious movie is one of the funniest modern comedies around. Brooks plays a psychiatrist with a severe fear of heights who moves to the Bay Area to take over a psychiatric hospital after its former head mysteriously disappears. He must contend with the resident psychiatrist (Harvey Korman) and the twisted reside…

Young Frankenstein $11.32 Mel Brooks’s greatest motion-picture triumph is a flawlessly loving recreation, and outrageous send-up, of the classic Universal horror movies of the ’30s–James Whale’s Frankenstein (and Bride of Frankenstein), of course, but also Tod Browning’s Dracula and others. Except, of course, that here the mad doctor (a descendant of the original Frankenstein clan, played by Gene Wilder) insists that his …

Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes $9.99 Therese Borchard may be one of the frankest, funniest people on the planet. That, combined with her keen writing abilities has made her Beliefnet blog, Beyond Blue, one of the most trafficked blogs on the site.BEYOND BLUE, the book, is part memoir/part self-help. It describes Borchard’s experience of living with manic depression as well as providing cutting-edge research and information on dealing…

Three Steps to Yes: The Gentle Art of Getting Your Way $3.84 “Three Steps to Yes shows you how to sell your ideas or yourself . . . a clear guide for instilling trust and respect.” —BookPageEverybody has to sell something sometimes. Whether you’re a manager or an employee, getting your message across requires selling yourself and your ideas in a way that guarantees a positive response, even from the most stubborn listener. Three Steps to…

Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness: Toward an Integrative Model What produces mental illness: genes, environment, both,neither? The answer can be found in memes—replicable units of information linking genes and environment in the memory and in culture—whose effects on individual brain development can be benign or toxic. This book reconceptualizes mental disorders as products of stressful gene-meme interactions and introduces a biopsychosocial templat…