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Jun.26.2010
My morning starts with Mozart. I put four sonatas interpreted by Matsuko Uchida in my player. The sun is not up yet, it is 4 am. Parkinson alters the natural rhythm of sleep, and I frequently wake up in the middle of the night. I like it, for it is quiet. I can hear myself think, and Mozart. His...
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Jun.26.2010
Chopin wrote his first piano concerto when he was seventeen. I hold it for the most beautiful piece ever written for piano. It was of course written for piano and orchestra, as the title concerto implies, but the orchestra is there more out of satisfying a custom, rather than because it plays a...
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Oct.14.2009
http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/oprah-michael-j-fox-dr-mehmet-oz-the-stem-cell-debate-is-over/
The Wizard(ry) of Oz
Visualize the surreal image of Oprah Winfrey, Michael J Fox and Dr. Mehmet Oz, wearing purple surgical gloves, sitting on stage around a human brain. Dr. Oz explains...
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Aug.12.2009
One of the basic facts of Parky life is knowing how the disease got its name. In 1817, Dr. James Parkinson published “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy.” Although the disease had been recognized for centuries, Dr. Parkinson was the first to really write about it and classify it and describe its signs...
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