Daily Archives: May 28, 2009

ARCHETYPAL OVERLOAD! Samsara, Icarus, Nicodemus, The Cynic Diogenes, The Prodigal Son, Kafka’s Hunger Artist, Socrates, Odysseus, Freud’s Oedipal Totem and Taboo Idealized Daddy Memory, and Christian Conversion—All in a Kansas Song! (And Accompanied by a Greek Chorus!)

Really. Listen: Once I rose above the noise and confusion (just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion) I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high! Though my eyes could see, I still was a blind man. Though … Continue reading

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The Moral Animal(s)

Humans are not the lone moral animal? So the Daily Mail reports: Professor Marc Bekoff, from the University of Colorado, Boulder, believes that morals are ‘hard-wired’ into the brains of all mammals. They also provide the ‘social glue’ that allow … Continue reading

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Want to Lose Weight? Soup Tricks the Pyloric Sphincter Valve

I didn’t even know that I have a pyloric sphincter valve! But the BBC says that I do, and that it can be made to shut with the eating of soup, and that’s a good thing for weight loss: After … Continue reading

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Poem of the Day: Emily Dickinson’s “Tell the Truth but tell it slant”

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightening to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be … Continue reading

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Quote of the Day: Albert Einstein on Time

Here’s a quote from Albert Einstein on time (yes, that Albert Einstein): “People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubborn, persistent illusion.” (Quoted on p. 27, and in … Continue reading

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Trippy Thought for the Day: Do We Live in a Block Universe?

I have a college textbook on logic and critical thinking (believe it or not!) and it has a discussion of the notion that we might live in a “block universe.” The book I have is its fourth edition, and I checked … Continue reading

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Time Does Not Pass or Flow? Physicist Paul Davies and the Block Universe

Here’s a quote from physicist Paul Davies on the notion that we might live in a “block universe”: “Physicists prefer to think of time as laid out in its entirety – a timescape, analogous to a landscape – with all … Continue reading

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