For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. — Diane Arbus Recently, I’ve been taking a lot of selfies. And no, it’s not because I’m a narcissist (well, maybe that, too), but because a certain special someone sometimes requests them of me. Now, being who I am, I like to ensure…
Compassion is the basis of morality. — Arthur Schopenhauer The question I’m going to ask may possibly offend and likely disturb you. But it’s a serious one. So serious in fact, that a psychologist spent months going back and forth with his ethics review board before being allowed to ask this question to participants. Eventually,…
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. — George Bernard Shaw Since the prior week, something miraculous has happened: there’s food in my refrigerator. As a graduate student, my shopping cart often consists of ramen, peanut butter, and a six-pack of PBR. But as of last Saturday, I have vegetables and hamburgers, sandwich…
The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle I’m going to describe a psychological state, and then let’s see if you can guess the type of situation that caused it: Your heart is beating faster than usual, and you’re taking bigger, even faster breaths. If asked, you’d say you feel very…
Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite. — Proverb One of the greatest moral transgressions someone can commit is failing to dispose of their dog’s excrement after it’s been excreted. This comes after my freshman year in high school when I unwittingly made a trail of dog poop footprints straight to my…
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. — Edward Teller Today, I’m going to focus on a single study, a study so cool that when I first heard of it last week, I immediately knew what I’d be writing about today. And it’s a study about mice. Researchers took 2-month-old adult male mice and…