You have a way with words, Scheherazade.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
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My musings on all things relevant and interesting (to me at least), from psychology, to science, to math, to writing, to wordplay. Basically anything that can help satisfy my unquenchable thirst for knowledge, my Wissensdurst :)
- Laura Berlin
- She was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.
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Conversation Topics For Every Occasion
- Judit Polgar, the chess prodigy who beat men at their own game
- Kierkegaard's Either/Or
- Godel v. Einstein: Heavyweight fight of the...state of reality, fka the state of unreality aka time
- Godel: Bold enough create his own universe, genius enough to get away with it
- Albie & Kurt put time in its place
- All things "Time"
- http://www.iep.utm.edu/time/
- http://www.iep.utm.edu/time/
- Best of the Nonfiction world
- a lil Alzheimer's in your water?
- Biomarkers: yay? nay?
- Salinger a Hemingway. Where are my letters boys...you left without even saying goodbye :(
- just read it. Now.
- stealing Mona Lisa
- the Mobius time loop
- a bit about Mobius strips, which I spent last night contemplating, for some reason...
- 10 novel writing tips
- OK Go, "This too shall pass"
- children's responses to the demotion of Pluto
- new dinosaur discovered
- Kant on free will - a brief overview
- Discover article - time travel
- Einstein's twin paradox (Wikipedia style)
- support authors
- exploiting Salinger
- looting Salinger
- Slate: on the new DSM
- Ethan Watters: The Americanization of Mental Illness
- disease mongering
- awesome video: ok go's "a million ways"
- Synesthesia
- Anish Kapoor: Memory
- mind altering cat parasite
- matthew keller on the evolutionary mechanisms behind the persistence of genes that increase the risk of mental disorders
- dictionary of rare words
- sign up! It comes in handy during those bouts of lethologica ;)
- The War on Kids movie review
- Dabrowski's positive disintegration theory: incisive, comprehensive, and finally bridging different domains of psychology in a welcome divergence from many more "popular" a la carte theories. The website's cry for revamping and the hard-to-find useful objective info on the theory are forgiveable after the breath of fresh air it affords in a field that seems happy to decompartmentalize and sell out to the pressure to tout the intracacies of brain science as mere "kinks"
- vonnegut tips (many of which i never seem to remember :) )
Andreas Feininger: ESB