@Theholisticpsyc
@jancarson65
Am reminded of research pointing out that people notice unfairness against themselves around 3 but don't usually learn to identify unfairness against others until around 7. It's a finding that's really stuck with me, as it seems to explain a lot.
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022
#NobelPrize
in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
Infant daughter has hip dysplasia, has to wear a harness for some months. Would appreciate your sending healing thoughts, if that’s something you’re inclined to do. ❤️
One of the best things about being a dad to a little one is that you brighten everyone’s day just by walking around in the park and store every day. ❤️
I think a number of my biosemiotics mutuals would enjoy thinking about this recent paper.
Join a feedback discussion on "Naturalized Teleology: Cybernetics, Organization, and Purpose."
Finishing this today - it really brings me back. I read most of PKD’a works as a teen in the 90s, and I was weirdly fascinated by VALIS). In my 20s I thought he was just crazy…now? I don’t know.
Engaging piece in this week's Economist on Russian fascism; especially like the bit near the end about Klemperer's discussion of the German prefix "ent" ('de' in English) and the Russian use of the word 'denazification'.
@OlufemiOTaiwo
Reminded of Sontag’s critique soon after 9/11 of the “cowards” language here.
(Also of Benjamin’s conception of “divine violence”, which had always unnerved me.)
Thinking about a friend who died too young today. (For those posting snarky takes, please don’t forget these deaths.)
Deora Bodley Obituary - Death Notice and Service Information
“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.”
Daniel C. Dennett, *Darwin's Dangerous Idea*
@Theholisticpsyc
Reminds me of Thich Naht Hanh’s advice: having a child is something that both partners need to think carefully about, to be sure they are ready to give love rather than try to take it (not his exact words).