Sunday, April 29, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Chchchch changes
Since 1996, more than 200,000 wolves, bears and cougars have used this overpass.
More here.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
What I Expected Was
For I had expected always
Some brightness to hold in trust,
Some final innocence
To save from dust;
What I Expected Was
- Stephen Spender
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
Why storytellers lie
More here.The Atlantic's Maura Kelly examines Jonathan Gottschall's argument that storytelling's deceptions emerge from deeply human needs: When we tell stories about ourselves, they also serve another important (arguably higher) function: They help us to believe our lives are meaningful. "The storytelling mind"—the human mind, in other words—"is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence," Gottschall writes. It doesn't like to believe life is accidental; it wants to believe everything happens for a reason. Stories allow us to impose order on the chaos.
And we all concoct stories, Gotschall notes—even those of us who have never commanded the attention of a room full of people while telling a wild tale. "[S]ocial psychologists point out that when we meet a friend, our conversation mostly consists of an exchange of gossipy stories," he writes. "And every night, we reconvene with our loved ones ... to share the small comedies and tragedies of our day."