Human Behavior

This poem could have been written any time during the last decade and in almost any

We live under one of the helicopter flight paths to a major hospital that has a transplant

‘The rock face that separates the alluvial plane of ordinariness from the peaks of achievement is sheer’; a collective of obituaries defines that rock

Hunger is pervasive. We see evidence of hunger and attempts to ameliorate it most places we go, including both Winston-Salem and Cape

The British Government makes an educational policy decision: remove most American literature from schools’ reading

Still with biology and medicine, and a further emphasis on nanoscience, where it is possible to combine nanoparticles and drugs so the body’s normal defence mechanisms are fooled and the drug gets to its target more

Some minds are sharper than others, but the pretense that there was no mind at all cannot justify

Moral and ethical issues are with us every

The slide into drug abuse is probably the most pressing problem in society

The transition from the dark to the renaissance periods encompassed the personification of our deep essential neural

Dylan Thomas famously wrote about his father’s decline and suggested that he should not become milder as he faded away. Some may differ when they witness such

Rewritten from Paul Simon, in Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Time,

Science is controlled emotion, anti-science is uncontrolled

We must hear the daily corrupting lies and break the silence of the mute

The daily news of terrorist-delivered death and destruction is heartbreaking; the events defy all logic to the majority of

Still with education, there is a tendency, when you get a little older, to believe that standards are slipping and that outcomes, that is the intelligence and abilities of educated people, are not the same as they were. This temptation is very strong

With acknowledgements to a phrase used by Philip Roth in ‘American

In the USA, the fragility of the ageing population becomes more evident by the

The destruction of peacetime