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

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 …

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 There are plenty of belly laughs in The Mel Brooks Collection, an eight-disc set of most of the director-writer-actor’s best-known films. Four of them–Silent Movie, High Anxiety, To Be or Not to Be, and Robin Hood: Men with Tights–are making their debut on DVD, while a fifth, The Twelve Chairs, was briefly available as a non-anamorphic DVD from Image Entertainment (all the DVDs in this set are a…

High Anxiety $6.32 With an acute feel for Hitchcock’s style, director Mel Brooks provides an uproarious yet loving spoof of some of the Master’s most beloved films, including “Vertigo,” “The Birds,” and “Psycho.” Brooks plays a psychiatrist who takes over as head of a sinister sanitarium where he must contend with bizarre patients, the even more bizarre staff, being accused of a murder he didn’t commit, and a fear o…

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…