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my top ten list of the most amazing and possibly even true scientific phenomena that blow my mind, continued: body identity integrity disorder
Posted on February 19, 2013 by nikkimeredith in odds and sods, science/research, top ten lists.It’s spring on I-5, my favorite time to be driving to Los Angeles. Miles of apricot, peach and almond trees are in bloom. The experience is so inspiring, that I reach to turn-off NPR – I’m too happy to listen to the world’s problems. But my finger pauses half-way to the radio: a reporter from […]
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my top ten list of the most amazing and possibly even true scientific phenomena that blow my mind, continued
Posted on February 10, 2013 by nikkimeredith in odds and sods, science/research, top ten lists.As I wrote last week, the criteria for this top ten “best” list is a little mysterious even to me. From the raging river of data that flows through my brain daily, some bits and pieces stick. Sometimes they hang on because they reveal something startling or offer a little piece of a larger puzzle. […]
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ten of the most amazing and possibly even true scientific phenomena that blow my mind
Posted on January 31, 2013 by nikkimeredith in odds and sods, science/research, top ten lists.When I was a little girl, my family camped in Yosemite Valley every summer. My favorite memory from those trips was a night we slept outside on cots. I assume the moon was a sliver because the sky was inky and I remember saying to my father that the stars looked like diamonds. I must […]
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the sessions the movie and more: part 2
Posted on January 4, 2013 by nikkimeredith in health and beauty, movie review, odds and sods.About 20 years ago, for a profile I planned, I interviewed Cheryl Cohen Greene, the sexual surrogate Helen Hunt plays in The Sessions. (for part I of this post on The Sessions click here.) I found her irresistible. She had a way of talking about sex unlike anyone I’d ever met. She could be funny, […]
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sex, surrogacy and supper: the movie the sessions, part 1
Posted on December 17, 2012 by nikkimeredith in friendship, health and beauty, movie review, odds and sods.Last week I was having dinner with six of my friends – all of them, to one degree or other, hip or at least hipish. I mentioned that I saw The Sessions, the recently released film starring Helen Hunt and John Hawkes. I was fired-up about the film and I wanted to discuss it. Specifically, […]
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