“Adult Content!” Meaning ‘Sex’
“Adult Content, Meaning ’Sex’, the argument about body-image we wish we could have. There’s a lot of pressure on girls and women on how they look, because appearance is the first, if […]
Category Archives: The Brain
“The Cat Before Christmas”
Or “What the Cat Taught me” or “Why I Hate Cats all the Time.” It was Christmas Eve, going on midnight, when a friend of mine reminded me that a […]
“Hang a Shingle”
Have you ever heard this expression? I forget where I picked it up, though I always misquoted it as “Hang a plank.” The meaning is the same, hang something on […]
“…and Now You’re Wrong!”
In the continuing theme of learning and growing, I had the idea to look up vegetarian dietary tips on the internet. I have yet to look at the actual page […]
“Universal Scholar and Professor, Amy Tan, Everybody*”
(* = She would probably be aghast that I called her that.) In 2008, Amy Tan would stand before a crowd and talk about how all the forces of the […]
“Everybody Else”
I learned a few things yesterday about kids, but also about adults. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s a secret to everybody, but did you know that kids become adults?! […]
Why Not?
So, I wrote an insipid warning of the super-progressive burst of technology and some (highly) theoretical consequences of not understanding, both the technology itself, but also its unholy success in […]
A Peripheral Narrative – a study in 2nd person?
Dr. Misia Landau of the Harvard Medical School said, (paraphrased), “Language creates reality.” What could he mean by this? Yesterday, there was some not-quite-so brief mention of imagination and its […]
An Old Problem
So, which came first, tools or imagination? I would bet that’s an easy answer, imagination all the way. It’s safe to say that some primates are gifted with this particular […]
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