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The Most Vulnerable Hole

By David W. Boles on May 13, 2009 8:37 AM | 4 Comments

We are filled with punctures. Our bodies are pretty adept at protecting the holes in us, but there is one particular hole that is more vulnerable than all the others put together and gender and stature and economic state have no bearing on the witness of that virtuous hole.

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A Mouthful of Alzheimer's

By David W. Boles on May 5, 2009 9:26 AM | 6 Comments

Can avoiding Alzheimer's disease be as simple as brushing your teeth and flossing every day?

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The Swine Flu Pandemic

By David W. Boles on April 27, 2009 4:35 AM | 6 Comments

The Swine Flue is here; the Swine Flu is on its way to you. Get ready for the threat of a worldwide pandemic. The Bird Flu of old has nothing on the Swine.

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Is an Interpreter a Clarifier?

By David W. Boles on March 6, 2009 8:58 AM | 14 Comments

As an ASL instructor at HardcoreASL.com, and as co-author of books on American Sign Language and as co-sponsor of the sosASL.com emergency communication website and, most importantly -- as the Hearing husband of a Deaf Wife -- I was shocked to learn a major hospital interpreter teaching program in the New York City area is instructing its students that the role of an interpreter in the patient/doctor dyad is one of a "clarifier."

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Racial Embryo Profiling

By David W. Boles on February 20, 2009 9:08 AM | 13 Comments

If you were Octomom -- and if you could have picked the skin color, hair texture and eye pigment for your litter of children -- would you have tried to take that extra step in the genetic coding of your kids?

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Sleeping with the Lights On

By David W. Boles on December 30, 2008 8:13 AM | 12 Comments

Do you sleep with the lights on? Or do you require total darkness for your evening slumber?

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A Semiotic History of Playing with Brains

By David W. Boles on November 13, 2008 7:35 AM | 20 Comments

Why are we obsessed with playing with our brains? Is it because we understand the least about our thought processes and that unknown threatens us? Does God live in the mind? If we puncture the blood-brain barrier, have we finally captured the magic behind the red velvet rope line?

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