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Category: science

  • First Person Plural

    We need to abandon the idea that each of us has one cohesive identity. Everyone possesses multiple personalities, each with their own set of motivations, goals, and quirks. Call them what you want, but there’s always the rational part, the mind, driven by cool rationality, always thinking it’s calculated what’s best for you. Then there’s…

  • Tweeting With the Stars, Volume 4 – Deepak Chopra

    If you don’t do Twitter, here is the conversation expanded and translated into IRL-speak: Deepak Chopra: “Before particles and waves are observed they exist as transcendent potentia in the field. The field interacting with its own self creates particles waves and the physical world. The field is non physical transcendent. It is a field of…

  • Werewolves Versus Plastinates

    Look at this lovely package I got from Amazon the other day: I was not expecting the beautiful embossed tin packaging. And I wasn’t entirely sure which movies would be included. When you see the words “Howling Trilogy”, you’d usually make a few assumptions. You’d assume that there are only three movies in the series.…