Sightings
Pets, Pleasures, a Black and White Great Dane and a Kleenex Cat
Joan L. Cannon writes: I’ll always be grateful that I married a man whose leaning towards the critters was as pronounced as mine. We had space in the country for the eleven cats, ten dogs, and three horses along with guinea pigs, canaries, and other livestock. Our oversized Manx cat always tried to fit into the oval opening of a new box of Kleenex. Of course, his name was Cassius (Clay), Mohammed Ali Cat. more »
Where Do We Die: Hospice Care, Caregiver Evaluations & Preferring to Die at Home
Articles: "About 1 in 5 Medicare patients is discharged from hospice care alive, whether due to patients' informed choice, a change in their condition, or inappropriate actions by the hospice to save on hospitalization costs related to terminal illness"; "End-of-life measures are limited in capturing caregiver assessment of the quality of EOL care"; "To provide a more thorough assessment of end-of-life care, we analyzed Medicare claims data ... to document places of care and health care transitions ... in the last months of life." more »
Today in DOD: Daily coverage of activities and a tribute to Robin Williams
Editor's Note: I have been married to men who were US military service members. First as wife of an Army Security Agency member in Germany while I worked for Army Special Services in Frankfurt and, later (and still today), as the wife of a former Air Force Public Affairs Agency member who served in Viet Nam. During those years, the military draft was still in effect, and while our husbands were in Viet Nam, I was one of three wives who met each week in Sarasota, FL as our husbands served. Unlike today, we had little chance to communicate with our husbands except through letters and once to meet in Hawaii on R&R after the Tet offensive. more »
Maryam Mirzakhani: "It's like solving a puzzle or connecting the dots in a detective case"
The first woman to ever win the Fields Medal – known as the 'Nobel Prize of mathematics' – in recognition of Mirzakhani's contributions to the understanding of the symmetry of curved surfaces. It has implications for the study of prime numbers and cryptography. Despite the breadth of applications of her work, she had said that she enjoys pure mathematics because of the elegance and longevity of the questions she studies. more »
