Category Archives: Psychology and human nature
Mental calisthenics
Supposedly, this picture will determine whether you are left- or right-brained. I’m not sure I believe it really is an effective test (I’d like an explanation), but it sure is an interesting exercise to make the dancer spin the other … Continue reading
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Of convictions and change
A politician changes his mind. Is that progress?
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This Orion article captures the anxious guilt I feel that I am not doing enough, that I never can do enough.
Theotropism
Mark Lilla, writing the cover story for this week’s New York Times Magazine, uses the word theotropism. While a Google search reveals that this is not a neologism, I am delighted to run across such a succint term that captures … Continue reading
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Gullibility in the first degree
The supernatural explanation must be the right one.
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