Monday, 16 December 2013

Scientific American

Study finds that psychologists are hard-wired to think in terms of computer metaphors.

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.)

Friday, 13 December 2013

Holiday Traffic

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
 — Noelie Altito

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

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Procrastination

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Lab Rats

Experience is what enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again.

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

Sunday, 1 December 2013

Why Ethics Committees Attract Bullies

Ethicists issue the commands that they insist other people must obey.

Saturday, 30 November 2013

Friday, 29 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

Thursday, 21 November 2013

B Grade

The best minds are not in government.
 – Ronald Reagan

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Minority Ruled

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
 — H. L. Mencken

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