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The Revolt Of Pancho Barnes
2021-04-06 00:43
Born to immense wealth, Pancho had an arranged marriage to a minister. Newspapers proclaimed the marriage of a socialite to a pastor. Tired of the marriage, she couldn't get a divorce so eac… Read More
2021-02-24 20:52
The years have piled up on me and through them I have at times been happy, have been sad, have suffered, have been calm.  Over the years and as a lesson hard-won, looking at mind with i… Read More
What Is Time? Julian Barbour's Answer
2020-01-13 01:37
Tell me what time is. You cannot. The future does not exist, nor does the past. Nor, the present. You cannot live in the present. Snap your fingers and it is gone. By the time you say "now"… Read More
Ota Benga: Man In A Zoo Cage
2019-12-08 03:57
In September 1906 a caged human being was put on display in the Bronx Zoo. A sign on the cage read:The African Pygmy, "Ota Benga."Age, 23 years. Height, 4 feet 11 inches.Weight, 103 pounds… Read More
Belief Shapes Behavior, Free Will Or Not
2019-06-12 03:26
Whether You Think Free Will or Determinism, Belief Shapes BehaviorPopular wisdom has it that everybody will do right or wrong based on moral choice, and that moral choice is just―well… Read More
Evolution Didn't Design You To Be Happy
2019-05-07 02:52
Happiness and EvolutionWhen people are asked what they really want out of life most respond that they want to be happy.  They may think more money, a better job, improved status, social… Read More
Ben Underwood Clicks His Tongue To See
2019-04-21 15:45
"To society he's blind," said Ben's mother, "but that doesn't make him handicapped. He just can't see."She also said, "One thing that I truly get back from Ben being blind is that he truly s… Read More
2019-03-04 20:01
"Anil Bajrang Mane grew up in a slum in Chembur, a suburb of Mumbai. His home – a single 10ft x 10ft room – was right over the wall from the 10th hole of the members-only Bombay… Read More
Coming Soon: McDonalds On Mt Everest
2019-02-08 05:34
Those who climb it nowadays have more luck than brains . . .In the evenings they watched films on a flat-screen TV in the cinema tent. One Russian expedition had liters of vodka on hand and… Read More
2019-01-24 21:31
In an old vaudeville routine, a straight man asks his partner, "Who was the lady you were with at 7:18 pm on the night of July 23, 1903?" to which the comic, scratches his head, looks puzzl… Read More
2018-11-21 04:14
Jack London had contradictory sides in that one did not "talk" to the other, but before that a brief sketch of his life is needed. He was a brilliant man, brilliant but uneducated. Forced t… Read More
2018-10-24 01:53
(I will be forever grateful to Zen for what it has given me over the years but I learned to sift the wheat it offered from its chaff. The following article is part of the latter.)Read more … Read More
Belief In No God Is Also Irrational
2018-07-08 16:27
In Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Daniel Dennett hopes to break the spell--not of religious belief, but of the conviction that it is not a fit subject for scientific… Read More
2018-07-02 16:51
The Date: September 1897Who: American Explorer Robert Peary, African-American Matthew Henson, the crew of the ship Hope and six Inuits, known then as Eskimos, including the 7-year-old boy Mi… Read More
Ferdinand Waldo Demara, The Great Imposter
2018-06-12 19:20
He was the Great Imposter, and his exploits became a bestselling biography, followed by a 1961 movie. Bold, downright audacious, Ferdinand Waldo Demara pretended his way into challenges that… Read More
2018-05-20 03:29
At 7:00 am on December 10, 1996 Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain scientist, awoke to a sharp pain behind her left eye. She didn't know a blood vessel had broken in her brain.  Squinting into… Read More
2018-04-08 02:37
Once long ago I turned to self-help books. My hope was that I could change my thought-patterns to become more effective in achieving career goals. The books claimed to teach mastery over sel… Read More
2018-04-02 02:07
  In Japanese commercial hatcheries when chicks are born, trained sex spotters divide them into males and females. This is known as chicken sexing. The divided groups are treated diff… Read More
No-Self, Antonio Damasio, And NonDuality
2018-03-26 03:31
Non-Duality is the term for a view or experience of the world as not two and not even one—not the duality of a person and the world outside him or her, but instead that which is neithe… Read More
2018-03-15 18:55
Czesława Kwoka in 1943 at Auschwitz. She is 14 and terrified as she looks at the camera.  She was born in Wólka Złojecka, a small village in Poland.  Her mother wa… Read More
2018-03-15 02:53
Major premise. Sadists don't make good parents.Minor premise. Masochists get no pleasure from punishing their kids.Conclusion: Sado-masochists should raise hamsters. (Your syllogism for… Read More
2018-03-12 01:54
In a scene during Richard Attenborough's fine 1982 movie, Ghandi, a wild-eyed Hindu stands before Mahatma Ghandi. He is desperate, this man, and has just come from the fighting. His head is… Read More
2018-03-05 02:25
How should I pack?What should I wear? Walking shorts and a polo shirt? Nothing? (If so, is there a nudist beach?)Do I need dark glasses?What should I say if I meet people I know? Good seeing… Read More
2018-02-24 04:39
This is far from a complete list.After  George Hennard  drove his pickup truck through the front window of Luby's restaurant in 1991, killing  23 people, wounding 27 others, t… Read More
2018-02-18 21:13
A life can be spent in avoiding confrontation with itself.  That phrase echoes in the very marrow of our bones.Faces along the bar cling to the average day. The lights must never go out… Read More
The Enchiridion By Epictetus
2018-02-15 06:38
1. Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are bo… Read More
2018-01-27 04:14
After a two-week sesshin, and in deep meditation, a Zen disciple is tapped on the shoulder by a monk so the disciple can visit his Zen master about his assigned koan. He arises in the silen… Read More
The Incredible Story Of Phineas Gage
2016-08-19 17:24
Photograph comparing Phineas Gage's skull to three foot seven inch tamping iron that went through it in 1848.  Gage lived and has become a medical legend. Read more here Read More
Love Within The Machines
2016-08-09 16:30
Without the brain we would not have consciousness.  Does it follow that consciousness is a product of the brain?  (An "epiphenomenon of the brain.")  The epiphenomenalists wou… Read More
2016-04-25 15:51
​In ancient Rome, a general, many to become emperors, presided over The Triumph (Triumphus), a victory parade through the streets of the city with throngs watching him pass by.  I… Read More
2016-04-25 15:49
Though I don't mention it in this blog, over the years I have been a serious follower of the nondual path.  (If you are unfamiliar with the term, think Zen Buddhism, which I practiced… Read More
2016-04-15 01:51
"If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings,” said the Tralfamadorian, “I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by free will. I’ve visited thirty-one i… Read More
2016-03-25 08:17
Time's ArrowWhat then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. St. Augustine (354—430)Theologists could help support their… Read More
2015-07-27 08:15
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2015-06-29 08:15
Taking French citizenship in 1937, Josephine Baker (1906–1975) was celebrated across Europe, especially in France, where she was known as La Baker. Treated as a "colored" woman in her… Read More
2015-06-23 23:26
In ancient Rome, a general, many to become emperors, presided over The Triumph (Triumphus), a victory parade through the streets of the city with throngs watching him pass by.  In a cha… Read More
2015-06-22 08:15
Well, first of all, do you know anybody who wears tights with underwear on the outside? Think about it. That is a dead giveaway of something leaking inside his brain.Read more » Read More
2015-06-22 08:15
Well, first of all, do you know anybody who wears tights with underwear on the outside? Think about it. That is a dead giveaway of something leaking inside his brain.Read more » Read More
2015-06-08 08:15
Outraged at injustice and inhumanity, the young, naive Lori Berenson made a comment in fluent Spanish to the Peruvian press that would change her forever. She became seen as a despicable, se… Read More
2015-01-19 14:23
God has a very big heart, but there is one sin he will not forgive--if a woman invites a man into her bed and he will not go. I know because a very wise old Turk told me.Anthony Quinn as Al… Read More
2014-12-15 09:15
The horrible accident of Phineas Gage became a case for brain scientists to study, but for me he also represents something else. In the long history of the world it has happened as people kn… Read More
2014-12-12 17:31
I can thank Donald Rumsfeld for the term "known unknowns." Indeed, there are known unknowns. That much I know, though I can never show it to you.But think about this. Thoughts come as percep… Read More

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