fritzbooks: After hiking the Western Wood, 2.29.16 Presence is to presentism as sex is to sexism. The sexist avoids experiencing the body, how the body is unique and free. Similarly, the presentist avoids experiencing time, how time is generation and a chance. The sexist doesn’t understand the body. The presentist Read more…
nsfdirectorfieldnotes: An excerpt from my recent Working Life editorial in Science. I am often asked, “What advice can you give to graduate students?” When this happens I have to pause a moment, as I was an unusual case: an English-major undergraduate who went on to graduate study in physics. The Read more…
nsfdirectorfieldnotes: An excerpt from my recent Working Life editorial in Science. I am often asked, “What advice can you give to graduate students?” When this happens I have to pause a moment, as I was an unusual case: an English-major undergraduate who went on to graduate study in physics. The Read more…
What I see and what they see – Philosophical Engineering
What I see and what they see – Philosophical Engineering
brainiology: Hello, brain people! Love!! What on earth happens to your brain as you fall in love? There are three stages that we all go through as we fall in love with that special somebody: Lust, Attraction, Attachment During Lust, sex hormones are released – this being oestrogen and testosterone Read more…
brainiology: Hello, brain people! Love!! What on earth happens to your brain as you fall in love? There are three stages that we all go through as we fall in love with that special somebody: Lust, Attraction, Attachment During Lust, sex hormones are released – this being oestrogen and testosterone Read more…
neurosciencenews: Vigorous Exercise Boosts Neurotransmitters and May Help Restore Mental Health People who exercise have better mental fitness, and a new imaging study from UC Davis Health System shows why. Intense exercise increases levels of two common neurotransmitters — glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA — that are responsible for Read more…
neurosciencenews: Vigorous Exercise Boosts Neurotransmitters and May Help Restore Mental Health People who exercise have better mental fitness, and a new imaging study from UC Davis Health System shows why. Intense exercise increases levels of two common neurotransmitters — glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA — that are responsible for Read more…
When Philosophy Lost Its Way “Like the sciences, philosophy has largely become a technical enterprise, the only difference being that we manipulate words rather than genes or chemicals. Lost is the once common-sense notion that philosophers are seeking the good life…”