“Neuromania” is Tallis’s term for reducing all aspects of mind and behaviour to the firings of microscopic brain cells, whereas “Darwinitis” refers to the other strand of biological reductionism: explaining all aspects of our behaviour in terms of our evolutionary history and/or the genes ...
Faith has been called “the substance of hope.” Faith requires no evidence for belief nor practice. The very nature of faith surmises that tangible evidence doesn’t exist. Otherwise, there is a manifestation. On the other hand, trust is based largely on evidence that is real according to ...
Terror is a noun, according to Webster’s unabridged dictionary (I will explain for those of you who are lost with the Webster’s reference. Webster’s is not replaced term for Goggle!) I will help explain Webster in the next blog. Why I think it is important to explain Webster’s, w...
I soon perceived the futility of Bernie’s efforts, however, AND the long-term damage he was doing to Clinton. I quit wearing his “Political Revolution” tee-shirt to the gym and tried to talk up Clinton. Despite my sympathy for the cause(s) Bernie espoused, I belatedly anticipated the...
I was lucky enough to be living in what they called a ‘short term let’ in Limehouse, a council flat with less than perfect amenities, so I had been able to save £1300 with which to launch my freelance career. I stopped work, spent six weeks putting together an illustration style ...
但研究《花間集》的學者,如Anna Shields, 却强調它繼承樂府詩,唐朝,尤其是晚唐諸人如李商隱和杜牧等詩的風格, 却沒有提到它與《雲謠集》以及敦煌發現的其他曲子詞的關係。究其原因,可能是在她們的眼裡,《花間集》是文人的詞而《雲謠集》以及其他從敦煌卷子來的曲子詞却屬於俗文學,因此彼此的關聯就不被重視了...
There is a slice of SL photography that focuses on the solitary figure with dramatic lighting seemingly emphasizing some unspoken drama or angst happening within. If you’ve taken any art history courses you are probably familiar with the term chiaroscuro, which refers to how light and dark are...
Lorica Segmentata on the other hand was considered to be Rome’s state of the art classed body armour. Naturally as such, it was sometimes substituted instead for its chainmail counterpart; the Lorica Hamata. In the still common cases however where they did don a suit of the iconic 2nd Cent...
In simple terms a brand can be a name, term, design or symbol that distinguishes one thing from another. If you think way back more than a century ago, branding originated from cattle ranchers using branding irons to identify which animals were theirs. It made it super-easy to determine wh...