Soma Purana

A few years ago I started vigorous MOOC activity taking numerous MOOC courses on varieties of topics, genetics, chemistry, cosmology, physics, ethics, and so on. I completed successfully more than fifty of them. One most important benefit for me was learning a good deal about genetics. This has helped me understand science articles that involve health, health policy, evolution, drugs, etc. At that time, I focused on quantity more than quality. Now my approach is quality and complete understanding. I am dedicating my nexr one year or so to just learning more deeply differential equations. I have registered for two MOOCs. I also want pursue learning Spanish (from Duolingo ).

I have been going faithfully every year for my annual checkup. There is not much for the doctor to do. He looks at EKG, blood test reports, listens to the heart, does the physical, and says "everything is fine, keep up your yoga." As I approach 65, I am wondering whether annual physical is really necessary. When I read the  article   it triggered this post. At this time, I am further reminded by another wonderful article " Why I Hope to Die at 75 ." I like the author Ezekiel Emanuel's approach to health care as he ages. last colonoscopy will be at 65. no screening for prostate cancer at any age. AFTER 75 no treatment for cancer developed after 75. no more routine doctor visits or routine tests and blood work no cardiac stress test No pacemaker and certainly no implantable defibrillator.  No heart-valve replacement or bypass surgery Flu shots are out. no antibiotics a do-not-resuscitate order and a complete advance directive indicating no

I had written a post on this subject before. While reading it, I thought I needed to update it. I wanted to suggest what type of experiences a US visitor should plan to acquire. My brother's family will visit us in West Windsor, NJ some time in the future. So I started making my list below what experiences I would arrange for them. This list is not in any particular order. I will continue to update this list. Annual Reenactment of the Battle of Monmouth June 18th and 19th http://www.friendsofmonmouth.org/reenactment.html Take them to a Trenton court and see how a trial is conducted. We all see court trials on TV and movies, but that does not reflect reality. Depending on time availability see both a civil trial and a criminal trial at least one full day each.  Take them to Mercer County community college and let them sit through an entire class period (either my class class or another professor's class). This will give them an experience of how students interact with eac