As all the New Year's hoopla tries to direct folks to see a shiny New Year ripe with possibilities, the cynic in me can't help but note that each year produces more of the same. I am generally predisposed to see coming opportunities to be missed, crises to bemoan, difficulties…
Amnesty International is encouraging people to participate in their a holiday card action. I've never done this before, it's my first time, others I know do it more regularly, so don't hesitate to join, too! I bought some greeting cards like two, three weeks ago, but started procrastinating when I…
If it's an emergency situation where you lost your glasses and you need to read something, all you need is a leaf and a tiny stick, or a piece of paper and a pin. Robert Krampf explains it at the Science Education Company. I just tried his simple technique and…
In an article entitled "When Words Decide," Barry Schwartz (writing in the August/September 2007 edition of Scientific American Mind [not available online]) gives some good examples demonstrating the great power of default choices. These examples add more fuel for a long burning fire-that people are not the rational careful-thinking beings…
In a previous post (here), I described how the god-of-the-Bible can be shown to be entirely the result of self-fulfilling expectations and how such expectations could be applied to any ordinary person to create the appearance that the person is a god; in other words, how you, too, could be…