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Very Interesting Internet
The Greatest and Most Unusual Travel Photo of All Time? - Everything about the image is just so amazing: The poof-y shapes of the clouds in the background… 100-foot deep Andes lake disappears - A five-acre glacial lake in Chile’s southern Andes has disappeared — and scientists want to know why… No More Black Holes? - A [...]
Continue reading...The Tetris Effect
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
As the old saying goes, “we are what we eat.” We are also what we think about. Ever wake up in the morning (or the middle of night) thinking about work, school, or maybe a book you’ve been reading or a video game you’ve been playing? I think we have all done this. I used [...]
Continue reading...Executive Psychopaths
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
This is an excerpt of an article by Gardiner Morse in the Harvard Business Review. You may expect an article like this to appear only in psychology journals but it’s becoming clear that psychology is taking a prominent role in the workplace: Chances are good there’s a psychopath on your management team. Seriously. I’m not talking [...]
Continue reading...Cure For Depression?
Saturday, May 26, 2007
From this month’s Psychology Today: The finding that women who do not use condoms during sex are less depressed and less likely to attempt suicide than are women who have sex with condoms and women who are not sexually active, leads one researcher to conclude that semen contains powerful-and potentially addictive-mood-altering chemicals. Semen contains hormones [...]
Continue reading...Pretend to Grasp Complex Concepts
Monday, May 14, 2007
I know the feeling: you’re standing around with your colleagues from work when they start talking about the latest developments in quantum physics and you’re left with nothing to say. I usually just quietly walk away and try not to draw too much attention to my inability to grasp complex concepts. Enter the new Seed [...]
Continue reading...Rupert in Washington Times
Friday, May 4, 2007
From the Washington Times, “Many people claim expertise on psychic phenomena such as telepathy. But few can boast top-notch scientific credentials. That’s what separates Rupert Sheldrake from the New Age pack. A botanist who earned a doctorate in biochemistry from Cambridge University and later studied at Harvard University, Mr. Sheldrake has earned an international reputation [...]
Continue reading...Entangled Minds
Friday, April 27, 2007
From the magzine, Shift: A restlessness is brewing in science. Unexpected discoveries in many scientific disciplines are shaking previously held assumptions. One commonality among these discoveries is that observations once believed to be meaningless, or mere anomalies, are being reconsidered. In the process, new revelations are surfacing about the nature of reality. A few examples [...]
Continue reading...Liquid Light
Sunday, April 22, 2007
We all learned what “bullet-time” is from The Matrix: bullets that look like they are moving slowly through water – as if the air the bullet was moving through was some kind of liquid. What if air really is some kind of new liquid? What if the entire universe is made up this “liquid?” It [...]
Continue reading...Smart People Live in Georgia
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Sometimes I just beam with joy that I lived in the intellectual capital of the world, Atlanta, Georgia USA. A place where it’s okay to ban Olympic volleyball on the grounds that there may be some of them contagious homosexual players; a place where we skipped the chapters on Africa, Asia, and South America so [...]
Continue reading...A New Theory of the Universe?
Friday, March 9, 2007
From the latest issue of American Scholar: “The world is not, on the whole, the place we have learned about in our school books. This point was hammered home one recent night as I crossed the causeway of the small island where I live. The pond was dark and still. Several strange glowing objects caught [...]
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- On Life after Death
- Science and Spirit
- Sheldrake on Beauty in Nature
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
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