New stuff I’m learning about living dying and what matters most - Tue, Dec 3 2019

Amid mounting excitement about the kids flying in for a visit, I look around the apartment with trepidation. Why am I so nervous about their imminent arrival? It has been months since our last get-together and they can replace ceiling light bulbs…

Jeff Cohn Another piece from Susan Gubar that describes the cancer experience as it relates to daily life like few others can

There's a home movie — an old one, on actual film — that I like to watch around the holidays. It features my two siblings and me in front of our childhood home after a huge snowstorm. We're toddlers. There's a favorite red sled and…

Jeff Cohn “ We are terrified, and bone-tired, and filled with love. We are tormented by the ticking clock. And we are zigging and zagging relentlessly, in search of what’s right in front of us.” Wow- that is a powerful way to describe their reality

The Class of 2000 ‘Could Have Been Anything' The high school yearbook is a staple of teenage life. But for some, it reflects the devastating toll of the opioid crisis. The Minford High School Class of 2000, in rural Minford, Ohio, began its…

Jeff Cohn The opioid crisis through the lens of an Appalachian high school class

Amazon 's next big step in health care is with voice transcription technology that's designed to allow doctors to spend more time with patients and less time at the computer. At Amazon Web Services' re:Invent conference on Tuesday, the company is…

Jeff Cohn I wonder if we’ll get to a place where transcriptions not even needed- we’ll just have video clips of the encounter

Laura L. Carstensen, a professor of psychology, is the director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. It's time to get serious about a major redesign of life. Thirty years were added to average life expectancy in the 20th century, and rather than…

Jeff Cohn Interesting premise- our world and our lives are still largely “designed “ for the realities of 50-100 years ago, even though we live, on average decades longer

One side effect of “the end of babies” —or, less dramatically, the steady decline in fertility rates around the world—is that today's parents spend more time and money on the few kids they do have. In the United States…

Jeff Cohn “The state of American child care might be defensible if it were expensive and high-quality—or if it were crummy but cheap. Instead, the U.S. has the worst of both worlds: Cadillac prices for an Edsel product”

From an artistic perspective, the past decade in movies is the decade of mumblecore. The movement of intimately scaled, often improvised, low-budget dramas and comedies that pull their actors from the lives and milieux of filmmakers who build…

Jeff Cohn Sad to say I’ve barely seen any of these- hope most are streamable or On Demand