beauty and esthetics
acupuncture
Treating Sciencephobia – Or, how to read real science without getting a nervous breakdown.
For reasons that drive scientists close to despair, many media writers get science stories wrong. They make small advances look like Great Leaps Forward, and when really big steps take place they usually miss the real story. ...
beauty and esthetics
Women not to blame for obesity – but estrogens might be.
Around the world it is estimated that 1.4 BILLION individuals are overweight — a previously unknown problem in history, when food deprivation, famine, and day-long physical work were much more common. But why is...
archeology of mind
The Kim Kardashian hypothesis of beauty.
Here is a response I just wrote to a new article by Leonid Perlovsky, “Aeshetic emotions, what are their cognitive functions?” (See here, here, and here). Perlovsky raises the classical question, “Why do we fe...
acupuncture
Winter SADness? Stick a light in your ear!
An wonderful English madrigal from 1598 by Thomas Weelkes goes “To shorten Winter sadness see where the nymphs with gladness Falala lala lala Falala lala lala” And the nymphs go dancing and singing through the tow...