On the Importance of Healing Language

I’ve written a whole book about this (Battino, 2011) and this essay summarizes what I believe is important to know about healing language. The bottom line is that not only do words matter, how you say them also matters

Get Thee Behind Me Satan - Typed

A typed page of song lyrics for the song Get Thee Behind Me Satan by Rubin Battino about administrators trying to convince a union professor to leave the union.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/alternative_newspapers/1051/thumbnail.jp

Absence of pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutations in mouse brain tumors

BACKGROUND: Somatic mutations in the mitochondrial genome occur in numerous tumor types including brain tumors. These mutations are generally found in the hypervariable regions I and II of the displacement loop and unlikely alter mitochondrial function. Two hypervariable regions of mononucleotide repeats occur in the mouse mitochondrial genome, i.e., the origin of replication of the light strand (O(L)) and the Arg tRNA. METHODS: In this study we examined the entire mitochondrial genome in a series of chemically induced brain tumors in the C57BL/6J strain and spontaneous brain tumors in the VM mouse strain. The tumor mtDNA was compared to that of mtDNA in brain mitochondrial populations from the corresponding syngeneic mouse host strain. RESULTS: Direct sequencing revealed a few homoplasmic base pair insertions, deletions, and substitutions in the tumor cells mainly in regions of mononucleotide repeats. A heteroplasmic mutation in the 16srRNA gene was detected in a spontaneous metastatic VM brain tumor. CONCLUSION: None of the mutations were considered pathogenic, indicating that mtDNA somatic mutations do not likely contribute to the initiation or progression of these diverse mouse brain tumors

On the Importance of Distance Writing, Structured Writing, and Workbooks

There is something about keeping a journal or a diary and writing about your experiences and feelings that can be healing and therapeutic

On the Importance of Expectation in Hypnosis and Psychotherapy

Expectation is considered to be the basis of the placebo effect in both medicine and psychotherapy. Expectation involves hope and anticipation and wishing

Using Variable Voltage Transformers to Control Heaters

Presents a graph relating the wattage (heat output) to the voltage applied to a heater

Mysteries of the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics

Over the years the subject of thermodynamics has taken on an aura of difficulty, subtlety, and mystery. This article discusses common misconceptions and how to introduce the topic to students

Nitrogen in Alcohols

In this section we will do a critical evaluation of the l-alkanols from C1 to C12 , 2-propanol, and 2-methyl-l-propanol (isobutanol) First we will discuss the data for the individual alcohols and then discuss the data at 298.l5K for the l-alkanols

Argon in Heavy Water

The experimental data of three workers were used for the smoothing equation. In fitting the data to the smoothing equation those points which differed by about two standard deviations or more from the smoothed values were rejected