Related to my article on the ManKind Project, this article appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch covering the Girls Rock, a mentoring program for teenage girls. From the Girls Rock web site: Our Society can be a pretty tough place The media sends a crazy mix of messages. School is full of pressures..Friends pull in […]
Gene hunters flock to Amish country
Gene hunters flock to Amish country, in the Globe and Mail, is a wonderful article about progress being made in genetic research. From the article: “We discover a new gene almost weekly,” he said…. Morton estimates that he’s uncovered about 150 genes implicated in various diseases, most of them found in the last few years. […]
Real Zombie Dogs
From News.com.au comes Boffins create zombie dogs about draining the blood from live dogs and replacing it with saline solution that is just above the freezing point. Three hours later, the saline was replaced with blood again with no ill effects. During the interrim, the dogs were clinically dead: no brain activity, no heartbeat, no […]
What Makes a Man?
Even the advertising industry seems to be noticing that we men are human beings and not caricatures, as evidenced in this Reuters article, Male-targeted ads found to be in no man’s land. If you feel confused about what you should “be” as a man, you are not alone. The Leo Burnett advertising agency, which created […]
ManKind Project Changes Men’s Lives
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about The ManKind Project. Men say training has made them better men was written, in large part, from the experiences the reporter had while visiting my I Group (no pride here! 😉 ). [Ed. The P-D’s on-line version of the article has aged off their web site so […]