In contrast to its left-sided partner, the right hemisphere does not deal in symbols and abstractions. Instead of abstractly carving the world into parts, categories, and mechanisms, it allows it remain as it is—an undivided whole. It perceives the world holistically and concretely, in a ra...
disappointed him when she sided with the conservative Republicans and stayed and even participated in the reading of the U.S. Constitution when almost all other Democrats had rudely walked out. There ain't no hate like left-wing hate.This...
ventriculoatrial shuntthe surgical creation of a communication between a cerebral ventricle and a cardiac atrium by means of a plastic tube; done for relief ofhydrocephalus. ventriculoperitoneal shunta communication between a cerebral ventricle and the peritoneum by means of plastic tubing; done for ...
We were developing in rebellion against the Old Left, i.e., the old Communist Party revisionists who consistently tried to block our anti-imperialist “red” politics on the grounds that they would alienate people and lose support for the Australian Labor Party whose election they said we neede...
conceit is not in their mediocrity, but in their presentation of themselves and their politics as progressive, the way forward. Progressives etymology, we should remind ourselves, means moving forward, advancing and the last time I looked this did not mean going backwards. what is it ...
andnayavāda(and, it seems, in the spirit of Paul Feyerabend’s ‘anything goes,’ which was not so much a principle as an attitude or approach forged in the fire of rhetorical polemics with Rationalist): “Perhaps human-world reality is not a monolith, but a many-sided perspectival ...
Germany lost every nuance with its one-sided support for Israel, trivializing the gruesome reality in Gaza and unwilling to demonstrate basic human empathy for the Palestinians. When the German Foreign Ministry is not praising Israel’s “humanitarian” measures, it refers to a catastrophic event ...
In a sense, we are all "experts" at using our dominant hands. Perhaps over a lifetime of lopsided perceptuomotor expe- rience, people come to implicitly associate good things with the side of space they can interact with more fluently and bad things with the side of space they interact ...
Polygamy – a many sided story 2010.12.20 Okay, I am an open-minded kinda guy. I think love and lust are not necessarily the same things; that people will form various kinds of unions and that if consenting and fulfilling no limitation should be applied. Now if you asked me if I bel...
Sharpton: "British royals should have named baby 'Trayvon.' By choosing 'George' they sided with white Hispanic racist Zimmerman" DNC launches 'Carlos Danger' action figure; proceeds to fund a charity helping survivors of the Republican War on Women Nancy Pelosi extends abortion rights to the bi...