An Abiding Presence
Depression as a serious medical condition – and not as an easily managed and self-chosen state of mind – has in recent years finally gotten the attention it deserves. There’s a large and growing body of medical literature on depression, its causes and effects, and there’s some promising new approaches on the horizon, including transcranial […]
Light Therapy as a Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury?
Water and sun—its confluence draws us in. Think of standing near an ocean. There’s something about it that’s numinous, preternatural. Perhaps we can sense there’s more going on than just immense landscape and sunlight. It’s what occurs when light interacts with water. There’s something happening that’s life giving, restorative. It’s long been known that light […]
Motive’s Irrelevance
It may seem surprising to some that a negligence case brought to recover damages turns entirely on conduct. For some, this may feel a bit incomplete. Genuine culpability, it would seem, would require at least some degree of ill motive or improper design. If the person’s intentions are entirely benevolent but their conduct inadvertently causes […]
