Macaccus Rhesus

Real time retelling of the pandemic management

Reviewed: 07-06-24

A collection of essays written as the greatest pandemic known to mankind since the bubonic plague unfolded. Its reassuring the author could see and describe clearly what is going on, in retrospect his opinion and advice are quite sensible and non controversial while the societal psychosis was raging on powered by the media fear porn and frankly, mis and dis information to use their favorite terminology.

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Interesting translation and reading

Reviewed: 02-22-23

I am not an exert in the new testament but this translation very accessible and the notes useful to make more sense of the context. In a way even if less poetic than other translation its nicer and seems less confusing.

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Very nice overview of recent history and the works under the hood

Reviewed: 02-17-23

Fascinating discussion of what and why happened in the last 3 years, what worked and what didn’t - and a lot didn’t as we can judge by the consequences, how we could have addressed the challenges differently along with proposals on how to reduce the chance of similar situations occurring or the government encroaching more on the freedoms and rights of the citizens

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Excelent and Informative

Reviewed: 01-19-23

A biochemistry and metabolic tour de force that reads like a detective novel. Most of the things discussed should be widely known and discussed in medical circles and accessible to the public conversation l.

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Etymology adventures

Reviewed: 01-14-22

Fascinating meandering trough history and literature with countless interesting anecdotes. A very accessible and enjoyable tour de force.

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Amazing investigative journalism

Reviewed: 10-27-21

Amazing story of culture wars, medical academia infighting and misleading for profit. A must listen for everybody given the common stories pumped into everybody’s praise since the 1960’

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Life advice for snowflakes on crack

Reviewed: 05-27-21

Every 3rd-5th world is fuck/fucked/fucking or shit and the structure of the presentation is full of tangents and flat hood metaphors.

I listed for about 45 min and this style was too irritating but maybe this is the language that makes it accessible to the authors patients / clients in need of help, so kudos to the author if this is the case and her message can reach and help some people who need it.

I read many psychology books and all in all the presentation while not too notch is by and large correct as far as I could get. All in all if you graduated high-school and read more than 10 books in your life you may be able to find better sources.

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Excellent historical context of the Patanjali sutras

Reviewed: 12-15-19

I should start with my estimation that I am a partisan of both yoga and serious history.

I have been practicing yoga for 10 years and read a fair amount of books about the history and philosophy behind the physical routines.

Some of the teachers I like enjoy venturing in lengthy dharma talks of various quality, new age style. They have an somewhat amusing somewhat worrisome attitude of deep knowledge of yoga history and philosophy that is full of inconsistencies and makes it sounds like sloganeering that cheapens the practice.

This book helps put the Patanjali sutras in its historical context and details it’s relationship with the yoga practiced in the West today.
Yoga it’s a fantastic practice beyond that most of its adepts understand and this book does not dispute this.

Not sure why many people got personally insulted by this straightening of the record.

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Great overview on the question of evil in the Western tradition

Reviewed: 07-16-19

A timely listen in the world of flower-power, we-are-all-finding-ourselves-through -parties and light drugs and everybody-is-just-wonderful of urbanite America.

Evil is alway lurking and scarily, in the right context grows out of normal people like any of the listeners of the great courses. A good lesson to hold.

My only critique is that after a fantastic overview of the Second World War and the Holocaust, the author brushed aside quite hurriedly the horrors that followed. The evil of Soviet Union from the 1920’ with Stalin’s expirations and population extermination through the catastrophic repression of the 1950’-1960’ in the gulags and the and the smoldering on until the 1990’ would have brought an enlightening perspective. Same for the atrocities committed in China, Cambodia and Vietnam to name a few, but these lack a literary and philosophical champion like Solzhenitsyn to tell the story. The incomprehensible great evil did not stop with the Second World War and could repeat itself anytime.

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Good intro to mindfulness and more

Reviewed: 07-15-19

I had some limited experience with mindfulness but I am very far from being an expert. Some of the material presented here was familiar from previous reads and practice. The course strikes a good balance discussing the history and philosophical bases of mindfulness and Buddhism , the current psychological views as well as providing practical instruction.

The teacher is engaging and spins a good yarn that keeps one interested throughout. He feels like he knows more than he talks about but keeps the course unpretentious and uses effectively anecdotes that make it easy to follow. I listened to some parts that I was not familiar with multiple times and probably will keep returning.

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