Agency Pt. 1—Neurology, the Temporal Lobe and the Self
With recent advancements in neurology, especially the ability to see, real time, what areas of the brain are activated when humans experience specific feelings, neurologists have shown that agency is active most strongly in the parietal lobe.
How Mumbley-Peg and Bloody Knuckles Help Explain the Headlines, Pt 1
“pwn”, which a misspelling of own, and describes achieving such a major victory that one cannot help but gloat, such as defying essentially every political pundit who wrote a word about the 2016 presidential election from the Iowa Caucuses until 11:00 pm on November Eighth.
Going—Mostly—Alone
There, I’ve done it: accomplished one of the items on my list, which is to restart One Candle in the Darkness with a post that hews to its original intent before the Hillary and Donald show derailed it.
What the Great and Powerful Oz tells us about The Donald: or How a Carnival Showman Rides an Angry Talking Head to Power
Near the end of Dorothy’s long journey in the Land of Oz, she and her companions improbably return before the Great and Powerful Oz carrying the burnt remains of the Witch of the West’s broom, proof that they succeeded in the Herculean task he’d set for them. He tosses off a quip about liquidating her […]