Dr. Dolphin  Why does swimming with dolphins help humans heal? A
computer-wielding "neurohacker" may have found the answer.  For
more resources on dolphin-human interaction, see our resource
guide.  David Cole knows that people consider him a little odd.
Cole spends much of his free time swimming with dolphins, and he
has enough perspective to realize that this makes him, by most
people's standards, eccentric. He doesn't mind.  Cole, a
28-year-old computer scientist, lives about half an hour south
of Los Angeles. With excitable gray eyes and long brown hair in
ringlets, he looks a little like a youthful Michael Bolton. Cole
works for a computer hardware manufacturer, but in his spare
time he heads the AquaThought Foundation, a cadre of computer
wizards, doctors, and naturalists researching "dolphin-assisted
therapy."  Advertise on MotherJones.com  For about two decades,
physical therapists and psychologists have argued that swimming
with dolphins can help the sick and handicapped. Dolphin-
assisted therapy see