I decided I was too cool for One Direction in high school and it’s too late for me now, you’ll have to carry on without me.) But when a certain video of the pop superstar, uh, sure, “not” spitting on Chris Pine at Venice Film Festival took over the internet last week, I ...
Constitution, Identity, Persistence A good theory may have some way of identifying itself to us and dissociating itself from the rest of the literature, thus facilitating talking about it and contrasting it with other accounts. As such, we may explore the separability of a the- ory from the ...
How do I know I'm dissociating? When a person experiences dissociation, it may look like:Daydreaming, spacing out, or eyes glazed over. Acting different, or using a different tone of voice or different gestures. Suddenly switching between emotions or reactions to an event, such as appearing ...
(Added October 23, 2024) “Zesty” Trend | Example: Posting a video where you ask someone to taste something e.g. a sauce and say it tastes a little zesty, then when the other person tastes the sauce, they say it’s zesty in a funny ‘zesty’ way. (Added October 21, 2024) “Di...
Released with a music video at midnight Friday, “cardigan” is adorable, and yet, again, hurtful to specifically me: “And when I felt like I was an old cardigan, under someone’s bed, you put me on and said I was your favorite.” Here’s what I believe: I believe that “cardigan...
who attends to her task rather than to the tool: When hammering the skilled user's attention is on driving the nail, not on the hammer. Conceptually, the tool is said to be ready to hand [9]. It is only upon breakdowns that the tool becomes the focus of the user's attention – be...
Because science carries us toward an understanding of how the world i,rather than how we would wish it to b,its findings may not in all cases be immediately comprehensible or satisfying.It may take a little work to restructure our mindsets.Some of science is very simple.When it gets complic...
In this collection the focus is on trauma as the impact of what happened to you. As Steve Haines points out in his great little overview Trauma is Really Strange, bodily trauma responses such as mobilising into fight or flight, or going immobile and dissociating, are the same whether we're...
is a chemical agent that kills the most white blood cells. It reliably sets back the “cancerclock” to zero and beyond. But we’re puzzled when we find that people who get this intervention die rapidly, even though thecancerclockpredicted that they were completely cured.The problem is that...
Staff comments that “tiny isn’t really that tiny when you’re in a small high-quality space [because] you can focus on living your life and connecting with the people you care about,” and we need to focus on the latter part of that statement. The public is yearning for higher ...