Once or twice, during the experiment, Sleeping Beauty will be awakened, interviewed, and put back to sleep with an amnesia-inducing drug that makes her forget that awakening. A fair coin will be tossed to determine which experimental procedure to undertake: If the coin comes up heads, ...
like humans flying or diving, a tiny effort within the natural planetary scale of things. To believe humans can control the natural world at a planetary scale is a massive level of delusion. Because the forces the more delusional humans might think they have are in clear and absolute fact wh...
Welcome to year four of everything I’m reading, watching and listening to in regard to the multiple planetary crises’ we face (the polycrisis), as well as articles on important social issues, because how societies function is fundamental if we want to have a stable e...
while being the horse is anything but, unless you’re playing sexual games and have a safe word. I often think of David poring over those images, and while I don’t regret having defeated an inhibition, I wish I’d chosen someone else with whom to do it. Someone...
Someone makes a statement, and those who agree strongly with it move to the far end of the room. Those who disagree move to the other end of the room. People whose views are less polarized can arrange themselves anywhere in between. Then someone makes another comment, and if it inf...
It makes you want to scream in the street, to shout “what the fuck is WRONG with people?!”, to chuck a bin through a window. However much we might hate this result though, we must accept it. That’s kind of the point of democracy. So what now? I would like to write some ...
But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak….Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.” Again, in chapter 9, “For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant...
Which makes it sound like a good thing but I assure you it’s not. Time works this way too. I fill every 2 units of time with 3 units of activity, and maybe even a fourth thing that has to hide behind the shed in the back to get done in the dark when everyone else is asleep...
What are the main themes in "A Dill Pickle" by Katherine Mansfield? What makes Elizabeth Bennet In Pride in Prejudice an ideal role model to women in her era? What is the key theme of 'The Fly' by Katherine Mansfield? How does Mina Harker in ''Dracula'' symbolize...
because they prevent mosquito bites (a function of physical durability and integrity), and kill mosquitoes (a function of chemical content and mosquito susceptibility). This essay follows the story of bed nets, insecticides and malaria control, and asks whether the nets must always have insecticides...