My friend TH lovingly used A.I. in crafting this image of me as a Talosian from the Star Trek episode “The Menagerie” (1966). They were a society of humanoids with brains 3x that of man. After the devastation of nuclear war, the survivors went underground and developed heightened psychic abilities, but ultimately fell to an obsession of creating illusions and distortions with their minds. And in that way the parable runs parallel to Trump and his MAGA horde — although their brains are, on average, about 1/3x.
Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.
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