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Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Why I Hope to Die at 75 (“Over time, and without our conscious choice, we transform our lives. We don’t notice that we are aspiring to and doing less and less.”) Off-Hand Observations of the Week Christmas trees and decorations on display in stores already?!?!? Or was the store […] Bulletin Board I’ve got some stuff coming up that will make posting even less regular, including the Weekend Edition Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Conversations with the Dead (“I know that on a page somewhere on my shelves, staring down at me now, is the question I’m struggling with today, put into words long […] 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 […] Bulletin Board Today is National Book Lovers Day, although I figure I celebrate it 365 times a year Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes American Manifesto (“We as Americans have the responsibility to live up to our claims of being the greatest country on earth.”) How Faith — and Fear — Created the World’s […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes The great forgetting (“And here is one uplifting aspect of ageing: our stories of self get better.”) How Did Bob Dylan Get So Weird? (“On a good night he makes some of his best-known songs unrecognizable, and on a bad one you come out wondering what it was, […] |
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