Monday, 16 December 2013
Scientific American
Study finds that psychologists are hard-wired to think in terms of computer metaphors.
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Self-Reference
Sunday, 15 December 2013
Schoolteacher Syndrome
The smugness that arises from not being smart enough to know you're not smart.
(cf morosoph: a fool who thinks he’s cleverer than he is.)
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Definitions
Saturday, 14 December 2013
Friday, 13 December 2013
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Fear And Laughing
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all,
you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
— Dame Edna Everage
— Dame Edna Everage
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Monday, 9 December 2013
Memento Mori
The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs,
which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.
— Nelson Mandela
Sunday, 8 December 2013
Lest We Forget
I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
— Nelson Mandela
Saturday, 7 December 2013
RIP
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world,
it is the United States of America.
— Nelson Mandela
Friday, 6 December 2013
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Monday, 2 December 2013
Sunday, 1 December 2013
Why Ethics Committees Attract Bullies
Ethicists issue the commands that they insist other people must obey.
Saturday, 30 November 2013
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Monday, 25 November 2013
The Multiversity
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character,
that it is suspended between its position in the external world,
with all its corruption and evils and cruelties,
and the splendid world of our imagination.
— Richard Hofstadter
Sunday, 24 November 2013
Saturday, 23 November 2013
Friday, 22 November 2013
Thursday, 21 November 2013
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Minority Ruled
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
— H. L. Mencken
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H. L. Mencken
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Monday, 18 November 2013
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Saturday, 16 November 2013
Holeness
Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness.
And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
— D.H. Lawrence
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D.H. Lawrence
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