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Thinking about Memory: Kimberly Clark Sharp Shares Her Near Death Experience from 1970

Before watching the below video, allow me to set the scene a bit. It’s 2008 in a run-of-the-mill 1980s decor hotel conference room in Durham, North Carolina. Attached to the cream cloth wall is a light hovering like an angel … Continue reading

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Dear Photograph: A Fascinating New Website

Contributers to the new site called “Dear Photograph” align old photographs with their points of origin, then retake the images. The achieved result is the display of people ghost-haunting, as it were, places in which they are no longer present (either because they have … Continue reading

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Atheist Walid Husayin Didn’t Watch What He Was Sayin’ on Facebook—and Has Been Arrested by the Palestinian Authority

An otherwise quiet 26-year-old Palestinian barber who happens to be an atheist did a no-no. He went on Facebook, expressed blunt opinions about his father’s religion (his father is a Muslim scholar), joked that he—Walid—is God, supported atheist views on some … Continue reading

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Blogging UFOs: Are UFO Memories Even Reliable?

In recent posts I know I’ve been raining on the UFO believers’ parade, and I’m trying to keep an open mind about what I’ve discovered after a few weeks of looking into the UFO phenomenon, but the fact that eyewitness testimony … Continue reading

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Today’s Hot Links

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham offers an intellectual defense of the torture techniques of the Spanish Inquisition . . . more Two conservative intellectuals analyze the decline of contemporary conservatism . . . more Is the Internet making the exercise of human memory less necessary—and … Continue reading

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What is Time?

Is time an illusion in the way that our perception of the earth at rest is an illusion? Below is an interesting and brief documentary on time (in three parts). Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: And here’s physicist Julian … Continue reading

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Rare Footage of Susan Boyle Singing “The Way We Were” (in 1984)

She was 22 years old:

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Quote of the Day

In 1837, George Sand wrote: We cannot tear out a single page of our lives, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. I would qualify Sand’s observation by noting that many people are actually quite good at … Continue reading

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Do Chimpanzees Have Autonoetic (Self-Knowing) Consciousness?

Santino, the stone gathering and throwing chimpanzee in a zoo near Stockholm, raises a number of interesting issues—one of them being the degree to which animals (besides humans) might have AUTONOETIC CONSCIOUSNESS. Accessing your “autonoetic consciousness” (your knowledge of yourself as … Continue reading

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Tell Me Your Troubles and Doubts, Giving Me EVERYTHING, Inside and Out

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“I don’t look back at the past with any distance. It’s more like experiencing everything over and over again”: A Woman’s Memory—and Dante’s “Inferno”

In Dante’s Inferno, the people in hell often seem to be experiencing recursive loops of suffering, forever reenacting—and recalling—the bad feelings that drove them to compulsively sin. So it is, in the Inferno, that the adulterous couple Paolo and Francesca … Continue reading

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McMemory Lapse: John McCain Struggles With His Memory on National Television, Reminding Viewers of the Age Issue

Is 72 year old Republican John McCain’s cognitive ability showing signs of decline? You betcha!: Dr. Robert Epstein, former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, on aging and cognitive abilities: [S]everal studies conducted over the past decade or so show that when … Continue reading

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