Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- The god effect (“The same mechanism that enhances our creativity – juicing up the right-sided limbic and prefrontal brain regions with dopamine – also opens us up to religious ideas and experience. But if these brain circuits are pushed too far, thinking becomes not merely divergent but outright deviant and psychotic.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Bookish Linkage
- A brief history of inappropriately invoking Orwell
- Causes of a reading slump
- Vacation book stacks tend more toward dreams than reality
- Bookish Lists: 100 actual titles of 18th Century novels; 50 great books unlikely ever to be read in school; 10 novels that will inspire a love of science
Nonbookish Linkage
- The end of neighbors
- 10 female revolutionaries you don’t learn about in history class
- The greatest fake religion of all time
Although your mind’s opaque
Try thinking more if just for your own sake
The Beatles, “Think for Yourself,” Rubber Soul
