Unfortunately it seems van der Kolk took the famous Mark Twain quote “never let the truth get in the way of a good story” to heart.

All this suggests that certain people may have certain physiology or hormonal profiles that make them susceptible to trauma.

What this would suggest is that van der Kolk could be getting everything backwards.

That is, trauma doesn’t lead to dysfunction or abnormal brain function, physiology or hormonal regulation. Rather, an unhealthy person may be more susceptible to trauma.

I guess building an actual browser, from scratch, is still a task so monumentally difficult that even a company that is aiming for super-intelligence can’t tackle it.

Dr. Michael Scheeringa [...] expected that after The Body Keeps the Score hit the bestseller list following its publication in 2014, it would quickly lose all credibility and be banished to the bargain bin due to its many blatant scientific errors and grandiose narrative.

Instead, it maintained a streak of being the #1 ranked book in Psychiatry on Amazon.com for years. Just last week, the week of June 29th 2025, The Body Keeps the Score is ranked #5 for most sold for all nonfiction books on Amazon’s official weekly ranking. It’s maintained an unbroken streak on the top 20 most sold nonfiction list for the past 233 weeks - over 4 years and 5 months.

The movie, by sheer speeding up the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configuration and structure.

General Sarnoff went on to explain his attitude to the technology of print, saying that it was true that print caused much trash to circulate, but it had also disseminated the Bible and the thoughts of seers and philosophers. It has never occurred to General Sarnoff that any technology could do anything but add itself on to what we already are.

When IBM discovered that it was not in the business of making office equipment or business machines, but that it was in the business of processing information, then it began to navigate with clear vision.

Let us return to the electric light. Whether the light is being used for brain surgery or night baseball is a matter of indifference. It could be argued that these activities are in some way the “content” of the electric light, since they could not exist without the electric light.

This fact, characteristic of all media, means that the “content” of any medium is always another medium. The content of writing is speech, just as the written word is the content of print, and print is the content of the telegraph. If it is asked, “What is the content of speech?” it is necessary to say, “It is an actual process of thought, which is in itself nonverbal.”