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Seasonal Links: Warmth, Restlessness, Depression, Imitating Christ
Warm Rooms for Warm Friends. Another example of embodied cognition, where metaphors aren’t just metaphors (e.g., something being ‘heavy’ makes it feel more important to us): A study … more →
Beyond Rivalry
Seasonal Links: Warmth, Restlessness, Depression, Imitating Christ
mmwm wrote 6 days ago: Warm Rooms for Warm Friends. Another example of embodied cognition, where metaphors aren’t jus … more →
Mothers and Middle Age
mmwm wrote 1 week ago: A few lines that I particularly like from Richard Russo’s latest novel, That Old Cape Magic (2 … more →
We Like Lists Because We Don't Want To Die
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mmwm wrote 1 month ago: And because we don’t want to die, we like limitless, endless things, which lists are, more so … more →
How We Die
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mmwm wrote 1 month ago: Or, how living people think about what’s happened to dead people, based on a study of the Ric … more →
Bathing
mmwm wrote 1 month ago: “He told her everything was fine. He said that he was, in fact, looking forward to bath … more →
Almost Contextless Links from Summer 2009
mmwm wrote 1 month ago: So many links saved up in bookmarks, so little time to synthesis them. So without further ado, these … more →
Personal integrity
peterhgregory wrote 2 months ago: A thought on personal integrity, from my business manager and wife, Rebekah Gregory: “Simply r … more →
Status, Dominance and Motive Blindness
mmwm wrote 2 months ago: From Robin Hanson at Overcoming Bias, commenting on a study about assessment of social power: … more →
Magic Hat Bottlecaps Found While Packing
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mmwm wrote 3 months ago: What is the Cost of the thing you have Lost? The Devil is in the Potato Salad. Find Salvation throug … more →
Vi veri veniversum vivus vici
chanega wrote 3 months ago: -:- Vi veri veniversum vivus vici -:- aka vi veri universum vivus vici By the power of truth I, whil … more →
Favourite Lines of the Week
mmwm wrote 4 months ago: “Right now, I’m on New Jersey Transit, near Rahway. Around me is a post-apocalyptic wasteland … more →
The Dividing Line
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mmwm wrote 4 months ago: From Experimental Theology today, a quote from a survivor of the Sobibor concentration camp: “ … more →
My Favourite Bible Story ... (via Twitter)
mmwm wrote 4 months ago: Once again, Twitter does all the work. This time, it’s #myfavoritebiblestory, complete with ir … more →
Scandalous! A Mini-Compendium
mmwm wrote 4 months ago: Girardians speak of the dangers of taking offense — that is, of feeling offended, feeling a ce … more →
On Chastity
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Noran wrote 4 months ago: I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I wil … more →
Blackwater excerpts
mmwm wrote 4 months ago: Recently read Blackwater (1993, transl. 1995) by Kertsin Ekman, which is more novel than it is crime … more →
Line of the Day
mmwm wrote 4 months ago: “So, where do conspiracy theories come from? They come from various tics of the human mind, ra … more →
Community Building with Human Sacrifice
mmwm wrote 4 months ago: Timothy Pauketat’s new book, Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi, … more →
Glamour and Transformation, Redux
mmwm wrote 5 months ago: I can’t resist Virginia Postrel’s writing at Deep Glamour on glamour and transformation: … more →
