What's Better In The News About Brains, Cancer, and Crippling Our Military

  For us who like differences between male and female, this is big. Brain imagery shows that women's brains are better connected across the two brain hemispheres than men's are. But men are better wired within each hemisphere. This may mean that women are better in multi-tasking (think of the myriad tasks a mother must do in raising her children and how essential that is for the survival of our species) and analytical thought (this too would be essential for raising children). Men though are better equipped for more focused work, requiring attention to one thing at a time (think how important this would be in hunting, fighting, and meeting other challenges. This could also be part of the reason that more estranged men kill their girlfriends or wives rather than the reverse).
  Cancer is expected to kill almost 40 percent fewer people in the next ten years because of survivorship programs. Apparently, there are a significant number of people who initially beat cancer but die later. Survivor care includes a treatment follow-up plan, physical rehabilitation, and emotional care such as counseling and support groups. Chemotherapy can cause secondary cancers and damage to the body. There is always the chance cancer will return. Most people- 70 percent- suffer depression. Patients have immunity deficits and get infections more easily. "Chemo-Brain" is real with both temporary cognitive problems as well as 15 percent of the patients having long-term mental damage.
  Survivor-Care is designed to combat these problems with the services already mentioned. In addition, there is a software program called "Journey
Forward" used to customize follow-up plans.
  What's better for the crippling of our military is the 2016 presidential election being won by a Republican. Americans are going to look at the cowardly, indifferent abandonment of an American ambassador, two Navy Seals, and a State Department technical expert at Benghazi. Americans are going to look at Obama's lie that he will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Americans will learn that the number of military fighting men and women have been decreased by 50 percent since the 1990s while the number of military bureaucrats has increased by 100 percent. The time for change is more than here. It is urgent.
  These commentaries are based upon news in the Wall Street Journal, America's most trustworthy national newspaper.
  Peter Nickerson