The nightmares of PTSD.
Emma Young: “When you look at the dreams of patients with PTSD, you see these nearly veridical ‘replays’ of the actual trauma event,” says Stickgold. This sort ...
Category: people
Sports and other games for self-understanding.
Will Self: Men – and some women – watch football, dispute and debate football, and even occasionally kick a ball around, because it offers them a small-scale mo...
Anger management and politics as child rearing.
I have an anger problem. It’s not something I’m proud of and definitely one of the habits I’d like to break. The Democrats also have an anger ...
The very dry John Malkovich
GQ revisits the making of GoodFellas: John Malkovich: It sort of came at a bad time in my life, when I wasn’t feeling well and didn’t want to think ...
The purloined letters.
Censored author, Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer, gets sassy: “While I do not agree with the edits [made to my book] in many ways,” Colonel Shaffer wrote, “the Defense ...
The bogeyman vs. the actual enemy.
We spend a great deal of time being warned about the bogeyman by the right. It’s seldom we hear much about the actual enemy. Time magazine: Yet in other w...
Imagining a movie about /b/, the other social network.
We’re weeks away from the release of a movie which chronicles the making of a popular social network. I am reading the Encyclopedia Dramatica and having a...
“This was not in the manual.”
Capt. John Hansen: He was explaining this while he was fighting the controls and trying to fly the airplane. And he said that with the auto pilot on, the airpla...
Happy labor day!
There was a time – a very long time, in fact – when the U.S. economy was based in part on slave labor. In a slave economy, legal entities like businesses and in...
What’s good for the capital is good for the labor.
A great quote on immigration: Borders are imaginary lines across which capital flows freely. The idea that labor should not flow freely across borders, whether ...
Falsehoods being traded as facts, “irrespective of their validity.”
The problem with so much journalism: Mr. Loeb’s views, irrespective of their validity, point to a bigger problem for the economy: If business leaders have a suc...
Here’s to laying foundations.
Laying foundations is drudgery. You’re mostly in the dark. You can’t really see any progress from the outside. And, yet, when the foundations are fi...
Mother, the movie, is a milestone.
The movie Mother is the best all-out movie I’ve seen in a while. Directed by Bong Joon-Ho, written by Park Eun-kyo and Mr. Bong, with amazing shots by Hon...
Sleep on it.
“Sleep on it.” To the extent that we use and believe in this phrase, we understand the fundamental role that the unconscious plays in human existenc...
One way our desire filters what we hear.
We hear what we want to hear. We see what we want to see. That’s not to say there is no truth. There’s plenty of truth. But we tune into the frequen...
Earbud headphones you wear all the time for enhanced sensory perception
Are wireless, motion-powered earbuds coming soon? We wear contacts to improve our sight. Why not wear miniature headphones to improve our ability to hear “...
The Roman Catholic Church has a staffing problem.
Aren’t the majority of the problems facing the RC Church related to weak staffing? Not enough qualified people. Can’t attract more. Actively losing ...
Who benefits from “holy war”? The extremists on both sides.
Josh Marshall points out that the anti-Islamic fear mongering being perpetrated by right-wing activists is hurting America’s counter-terrorism efforts. He...
If you’re going to scare monger, at least do it right.
Lee Smith has written a fun, smart and thorough takedown of Gingrich et al’s latest boogie monster: “sharia” law. As you would expect, Gingric...