We live in a world of illusion. So many of the concerns that occupy the mind and the tasks that fill the calendar arise from planted impulses to become someone or something that we are not. This is no accident.… Continue reading

Climate change is global-scale violence against places and species, as well as against human beings. Source: truth-out.org Continue reading

The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart – The Physics arXiv Blog – Medium Revolutions in science often come from the study of seemingly unresolvable paradoxes. An intense focus on these paradoxes, and their… Source: medium.com Continue reading

Cultural beliefs and stereotypes that associate men but not women with “raw intellectual talent” can help explain the differing gender gaps across various academic disciplines, according to a new study by Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton), Andrei Cimpian (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Meredith Meyer (Ottterbein), and… Continue reading

Originally posted on Dreams are the poetic expression of the soul.: © Art Tatum. Pure undiluted genius.  Sheer magic. ___________________________ © 2015 Arvin da Braga.  All Rights Reserved. Continue reading

Originally posted on simonhlilly: UNDOING Sitting without time, Outwith its wild unheard roar. Moments snowmelt vanishing, Undoing forgiven, unknowing acquiesced. Oh, Birds of dawn, the hills are laced with cold. Blue air placid, blanket weighed. A roll of mist is… Continue reading

Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: A few days ago, I came across this statement by the notable biologist Peter Medawar: ‘the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.’… Continue reading