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The New Yorker: HERE’S WHY – A sociologist offers an anatomy of explanations. by MALCOLM GLADWELL “In “Why?” (Princeton; $24.95), the Columbia University scholar Charles Tilly sets out to make sense of...
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ireneQ – unravelled: Busy affirming “… when there is a misunderstanding or miscommunication, or somebody does something to hurt or upset me or otherwise get on my nerves, I often see the other person’s...
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Telling someone something, in some way alters the nature of the thing being told. This is especially true of personal hopes and dreams. Partially, the telling alters the fact by the way the person...
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Jeremy Dean | PsyBlog | Psychology Blog: Why Career Planning Is Time Wasted n reality, people frequently don’t know what they want and psychology has proved it. That’s why career planning, or at the...
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ScienceDaily: ‘He Looks Like A ‘Bob” Is True I’ve always thought that words and names have shape and texture, such that they need to fit the object they represent.
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The Case Against Adolescence by Robert Epstein (kottke.org) "Efficient capitalist production and rising wage rates lead to an increased sorting by age and the moral education of teens takes a hit."
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Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind – New York Times “The brain has a limited capacity for self-regulation, so exerting willpower in one area often leads to backsliding in others. The good news,...
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Warning – Habits May Be Good for You – NYTimes.com How advertising learned to make things appealing, and how our actions are cued by habits.
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How your friends’ friends can affect your mood – life – 30 December 2008 – New Scientist it is becoming clear that a whole range of phenomena are transmitted through networks of friends in ways that...
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i stepped outside myself and a facade lifted for a moment as though i was someone else as though i was a compartment in my own mind. – 1/20/10 – 54
View ArticlePrayer in Distress
heal me father, for i suffer i am in sore distress lay your cooling touch upon my troubled brow bestow peace unsurpassing upon the turmoil of my heart — 4/10/10 – 143
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