Some older posts . . .

A friend recently asked me about the ideas that moved me over the past few years. I've written about many of those ideas at Dangerous Intersection. Today, I'm offering links to some of my favorite posts. I decided to gather these posts into one place as a reminder of some of the "Best Of" ideas, those that have especially challenged and moved me. It's not my own writing that interests me here, but the content--most of these ideas are not my own. I was working mostly as a reporter. I should also note that thought I've gathered the ideas about which I have written, there are quite a few other authors who write at this site. To view the posts of any of the authors, simply go to the bottom right corner of the home page and click on one of the author names. I've divided the posts into some broad categories. The titles appear in the link, so I haven't bothered to link them all properly. Cognitive science and linguistics http://dangerousintersection.org/2010/06/26/why-are-human-animals-such-hypocrites-because-we-are-little-lawyers-riding-big-elephants/ http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/11/25/jonathan-haidt-urges-that-we-escape-moral-righteousness/ http://dangerousintersection.org/2009/05/03/why-it-matters-that-humans-are-animals/ http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/10/23/apollo-13-early-course-corrections-and-the-soul/ http://dangerousintersection.org/2009/12/12/reminder-that-struggle-for-existence-is-a-conceptual-metaphor/ http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/12/14/we-are-gods-with-anuses-another-look-at-%E2%80%9Cterror-management-theory%E2%80%9D/ [More . . . ]

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A haphazard list of some of Dangerous Intersection’s more memorable posts

We recently received this comment from Scholar:

Erich or Grumpy,

May I please have some more links to the discussions here at dangerous intersections which you have found to be most interesting, *must read*, or highlights in general.

Thanks,
Scholar

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I took Scholar’s request seriously and went back to review many of our posts.  I still can’t get over how many topics we’ve addressed in nine months, covering 592 posts! 

Rather than call these posts the “best of,” I would merely call them the more memorable posts to me, keeping in mind the triple asterisk that comes with the assembly of this list:  1) I simply didn’t have the time to review each of the posts again.  Therefore, this list is only representative, not complete.  2) It is difficult to determine any meaningful criteria on which to base such a list, other than (as I’ve already suggested) the idea that this list includes many of the posts I found memorable.  Other people will certainly have different ideas of what posts are worthy 3) Scholar’s request puts me in an awkward spot, given that I write for the blog. 

To the extent that I’ve included my own posts, then, it should be with the understanding that I am not trying to judge the writing so much as considering whether the ideas addressed are memorable to me, whether the ideas expressed therein seemed important or whether they moved me.  Here’s another way of looking at it:  if you want …

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