Teach Us to Sit Still is a thinking man’s memoir. Tim Parks is incapable of digesting an experience without putting it into words, and placing it in the center of web of newly connected thoughts. His pelvic pain bleeds over into the biographies of D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and even Gandhi.
Month: June 2021
Women’s Spines Are Made for Pregnancy
Since my existing back problems are hard enough to manage, I wanted to know what exactly would change with pregnancy. Would it exacerbate my existing problems, or put me at risk of new ones? Was there anything I could do to prepare myself?
Why Are Astronauts Weirdly Susceptible to Herniated Discs?
Astronauts face many unique job hazards, including an abnormally high rate of disk herniations. The ESA asked scientists to figure out why astronauts’ discs were in such bad shape.