Anna B
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Anna B
Finding meaning in something random was described by researchers as an important factor in the formation of paranormal and delusional beliefs, and has been found to be implicated in vulnerability to schizophrenia.
Dr. Hannah Rose • The Dangers of Apophenia: Not Everything Happens for a Reason
I took a medium-sized bottle of Jim Beam and drank from it under the covers while reading No Man Is an Island by Thomas Merton. Without God, we are no longer persons. We become dumb animals under pain, happy if we can behave at least like quiet animals and die without too much confusion.
Maggie Nelson • The Red Parts
The questions of apostrophe placement regarding Harris and Walz are far from the most debated use of the punctuation mark, Mr. McCalden said. (That would be using orange’s instead of oranges.) But the discourse comes at a pivotal time for apostrophes: Thursday, Aug. 15, is International Apostrophe Day.
Ben Hickey • Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier.
What happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?
New York Times • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
I lend you a copy of the novel I loved, you read it, and now its beauty resides in both of our hearts
Nick Riggle • Beauty Is Not an Ornament to the Good Life, It Is at Its Heart
Our initial findings suggest that open goals can lead to performance at least as good as (and in some cases better than) SMART goals