Tag: traditional wisdom

What Does Your Acupuncturist Really Know?

There is a lot of outrage and unkindness in our country, today more than ever. I get it. The polarization in the United States has come down to people not being able to have a meal with family members who share a different political viewpoint, while others are in an uproar about wearing or not…


The Sometimes Strange History of the X-Ray

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered the X-ray in Germany in 1895 as he experimented with cathode rays. He used a cathode tube and covered it with a heavy black cloth. Röntgen was astonished to find an incandescent green light projected onto a nearby fluorescent screen. He called this discovery “X” rays, due to the fact that…


Every Action, Big Or Small, Makes History

Dwight D. Eisenhower was an avid reader of history. In his memoir, At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, the former president tells about his childhood days lost in books about Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Persia. He loved the stories about famous warriors, kings, and philosophers—the “peaks and promontories,” as he calls it, of history. But writing his…