Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. — H. Mumford Jones How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the ark? This question was posed at the social psychology conference I attended this past weekend on Catalina Island off the…
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – M. Kathleen Casey Pain—what an unpleasant sensation. If happiness is the ultimate good, then pain is the ultimate bad. However, if pain really is this unequivocally negative experience, why do we even have it? From an evolutionary standpoint, pain serves to remind us something’s wrong. Physically speaking, it alerts…
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. — Oscar Wilde Astonishingly, no one really knows why we dream. With all our development in neuroscience and technology, we still can’t de facto answer why something as…
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. – Helen Keller The reason pirates wore eye-patches was not because they were always getting poked in the eye, but because they were constantly going above deck (where it was bright) to below deck (where it was dark). And in order to…
Blood is really warm, it’s like drinking hot chocolate but with more screaming. — Ryan Mecum With the good weather, I figure camping season is here already. So for today’s post, I’m going to reimagine one of my favorite campfire stories: Behind the wheel of his new, 1995 Ford pickup, Tanner’s eyelids felt weighty. Music….
Nearly all men can withstand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln. Camping in the woods with friends is fun. Camping on a nest of your dirty clothes in the airport is not. But thanks to Mother Nature’s sudden fascination with lightning, I got to experience the…