“Nincompoop,” meaning fool or idiot, was traced back to its first usagein the 1670s by Jonson in his Dictionary of 1755. He believed the word to have come from the Latin legal term, “non compos mentis”, which translates to insane or mentally incompetent or not of sound mind. ...
Where did the term Doolally come from? Doolally: Fromthe town of Deolali, the location of an army base and sanatorium where soldiers leaving India in the late 19th century were sent before leaving for home. Those that became mentally deranged after contacting a fever, or Tap in Urdu, were ...
While a lot of interesting stuff can come out of more left-field bands dabbling in pop, we also fetishize it, crowding out true experimentation. At least this reviewer did. Then a band comes along like Strawberry Hands that makes you think again about why you listen to music in the ...
The representations provided by spatial view cells in the parahippocampal cortex and hippocampus are in allocentric, world-based coordinates (Rolls, 2023b, Rolls, 2023a), and therefore the idiothetic (self-motion) update provided by the dorsal visual ‘where’ stream needs to be in world-based ...
For too many years, I believed I had to play up the “normal” bits of myself to the point where I was practically in denial when it came to my disabilities. I believed that a “good disabled person” had to behave as though her disabilities didn’t exist. If they did exist, they...
When the two dogs woke up, “Idiot” had all the abilities “Genius” possessed. It could follow every gesture and order given by its master. But “Genius” gave no response to its master, and in fact did not recognize him at all. 【1】We can learn from the passage that ___. A....
Bush 2 was seen as a bumbling idiot who was the straight man to Dick Cheney’s evil overlord pulling the strings behind the curtain. But in comparison to Trump, Jeb would be seen as the genius. He would be the smartest guy in the room. Surely that would be a welcome change for the...
The 4×4 matrix with Problem-Solution and Ask-Tell as axes is a useful guide to navigate the situation, and help both the giver and recipient of the feedback co-create (I hate the word, but it does seem apt here) actionable insights that both can own. I did not mean this piece to...
We had the Battle of Seattle, yes, but mostly we just floated around feeling excluded from power and influence, while quietly waiting for bigotry to die out with the old people who held those views (because, of course, bigotry was something old people did, and would go away by itself)....
Chandler:Sometimes I wish I was a lesbian... (They all stare at him.) Did I say that out loud? Joey:Alright Ross, look. You're feeling a lot of pain right now. You're angry. You're hurting. Can I tell you what the answer is?