Idiot brain6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() the human brain is pretty messy, fallible and disorganised. ![]() This is lucid, funny and smart: in short, the best kind of popular science. The Idiot Brain : A Neuroscientist Explains What Your Head is Really Up to. alcohol can sometimes improve your memory?ĭean Burnett’s unpredictable and entertaining first book explores the unexpected side of everyday life, highlighting where conventional thinking is wrong and how our brains trip us up at every turn.the way the brain’s processing works means that time really does fly if you’re having fun?.the brain’s limitations mean you really can miss something that’s right under your nose?.In the interview we discuss motion sickness, the pain of breakups, why criticisms are more powerful than. Burnett’s book is a guide to the neuroscience behind the things that our amazing brains do poorly. conspiracy theories and superstitions stem from your brain’s insistence that the world isn’t random? In this episode we interview Dean Burnett, author of Idiot Brain: What Your Brain is Really Up To.stress can actually increase your performance at a task?.In The Idiot Brain, Dean Burnett celebrates the downright laughable things our minds do to us, as well as exposing the fact that people are often way off in their thinking about how the brain works. It’s undeniably impressive, but it’s far from perfect, and these imperfections influence everything that humans say, do and experience. The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it’s also messy, fallible and disorganized. ![]()
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Stephen king the shining6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Perhaps, in this effort, the “truth comes out.” Jack’s desire to write is only a small part of the novel. He explores the fact that a writer has a compulsion to write because he feels he has to. In these lines, it’s likely that King is conveying, through the character of Jack, his feelings about writing. ![]() ![]() He would write it because he felt he had to. He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. These familial bonds that exist at the beginning of the novel soon degrade, leading Jack to want to kill his wife and son. The world, he concludes, doesn’t “love you,” but Danny’s mother and father do. Here, Danny is learning that good thing happen to bad people, and bad things happen to good people, and there isn’t much, at least in Jack Torrance’s view of the world, that he can do about it. In these lines, readers can get a sense of one of the book’s major themes-the uncaring nature of the world. The world don’t love you, but your momma does and so do I. Sometimes it seems like it’s only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. ![]() Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Terrible things happen in the world, and they’re things no one can explain. It don’t hate you and me, but it don’t love us, either. ![]() Garden by Yuichi Yokoyama6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Plaza is a visual phantasmagoria half hidden behind the heavy onomatopoeia of its tumult. Plaza is a Dionysian mechanical feast, a grandiose spectacle that celebrates the origins of the universe, animism, gods, manufactured objects, devotion, the celebration itself, totalitarianism and the fourth dimension. Plaza is a frenetic carnival procession that never lets up, never lets up. Below the stage, in spite of the physical aggression to which they are constantly subjected, the audience shows a growing fervour, an excitement that soon borders on mystical ecstasy. “On a sort of conveyor belt that serves as a stage, the most heterogeneous objects, the most grotesque assemblages and acrobatics performed by disturbing costumed characters are paraded. Dominique Goblet’s selection for her storefront. ![]() Running from reality missy robertson6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() So, when he stopped me in the hallway of our house one day during that festive week, took me by the shoulders, faced me head on and stated, “Missy, I need to tell you something very important”, it definitely got my attention. He is a positive, energetic, God-fearing, man and has been this way for as long as I can remember. He is always complimenting me and telling me how proud he is of the woman I’ve become. If you know my dad at all (and especially if you follow him on Facebook), it won’t take you long to realize how much he loves me. It was a fun, exciting time full of promise and hopes of a bright future. ![]() Family was arriving, dresses were being altered and tuxes were being picked up from the rental shop. The week that Jase and I were married, back in the dark ages of 1990, was full of activities. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.” Genesis 2:24 (NIV) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2010, he was awarded the Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize at the University of Toronto.Īccording to Wikipedia, Daniel Heath Justice is an American-born Canadian academic and citizen of the Cherokee Nation. ![]() Cox, 2014), and Why Indigenous Literature Matters (2018). In 2015, Justice was awarded the UBC Killam Research Prize in recognition of his leadership in the field of Indigenous Literary Studies and for his many contributions to it, including Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History (2006), The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature (co-edited with James H. It also received the 2019 PROSE Award, granted by the Association of American Publishers, in the category of Literature and was nominated for the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism from the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL). Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (2018) is the winner of the NAISA ( Native American and Indigenous Studies Association) Award for Subsequent Book published in 2018. He began his career at the University of Toronto, where he taught English and worked in association with the Aboriginal Studies Program. He started his studies at University of Northern Colorado and received his M.A. He is professor of First Nations and Indigenous Studies and English at the University of British Columbia. Daniel Heath Justice is an American-born Canadian academic and citizen of the Cherokee Nation. ![]() |