You feel like there's more autonomy today? Absolutely. You don't even have to go into a studio to record an album anymore, so you don't need all those hangers-on, producers. Do you feel like today at this stage in your career, you have more freedom to do what you want,...
Today, we discuss how beliefs form in our brain, why they persist, even when they're wrong and sometimes even when we might know that they're wrong. We'll also dive into why people believe weird things and why smart people sometimes are even more susceptible to faulty beliefs. Last but...
That’s because an outside eye may take note of weird behavior that you may be overlooking when trying to make things work. However, friends can also be the naysayers making you feel like you’re making wrong decisions in all your relationships. ...
science does answer these questions, which are based on seismic movements and the slipping of tectonic plates, as well as mutations and viruses. So why, then, does god make things happen. As the Beach Boys answered, “God only knows”. ...
10:30 p.m.Have a nice talk with my mom. Yes, the whole career transition has me back with my folks to save some cash. It’s not ideal, and I feel weird talking with my mom over milk and Oreos right after a three-hour fuck-fest, but in general I really like my parents, and ...
Sf readers are generally technophiles who want their sensawunda tickled by gadgets or, in a pinch, weird biology. But I think the most spectacular advance in the Incatena, and also the most likely, is socionomics. The name is by analogy with the transformation of astrology to astronomy, ...
That’s why cryonicists adamantly assert that cryonics doesnotdeal with dead people—it deals with living people who simply need to be transferred to a future hospital to be saved. They believe that in many cases, today’s corpse is tomorrow’s patient (which is why they call their frozen...
(Does he get most of the royalties?) I have little doubt it’ll sell like hotcakes. Everybody wants to know what Jesus has to say! And two sequels are in the offing. But I remain curious: why did theNew York Timesprofile this woman? It’s like profiling any kind of hokum: reiki...
And sometimes it really does kind of take the fun out of it to overexplain things. Wild, inexplicable, weird magic is great! On the other hand…I kinda like science-magic too, if it works in a story. I remember as a kid reading this book that listed ‘spells’ from folklore like ...
” Weinstein may have tried to stop masturbating in front of women and couldn’t, which he may have hated himself for. The behavior becomes this weird kind of tumbleweed where … somebody does stupid things and then it reaches monstrous proportions, which it seems to have done in Weinstein’...