Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Happy New Year!
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Entries from December 2008
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
A strange kind of wealth
“In these moments of peace, deprivation seems a strange sort of gift. I find food in a couple hours of fishing each day, and I seek shelter in a rubber tent. How unnecessarily complicated my past life seems. For the first time, I clearly see a vast difference between human needs and human wants. Before [...]
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Seven Steps for Overcoming Ego’s Hold on You
Seven Steps for Overcoming Ego’s Hold on You Extract from There is a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem Dr. Wayne Dyer Here are seven suggestions to help you transcend ingrained ideas of self-importance. All of these are designed to help prevent you from falsely identifying with the self-important ego. 1. Stop being offended. The behavior [...]
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Some of us are dying a little faster
“Don’t be sorry. We are all dying Jack. It’s just that some of us are dying a little faster. The key is to not live your life as if you are already dead.”
Friday, December 26th, 2008
Exceptional memories
Nature Neuroscience 6, 90 – 95 (2002) Published online: 16 December 2002; | doi:10.1038/nn988 Routes to remembering: the brains behind superior memory Eleanor A. Maguire1, Elizabeth R. Valentine2, John M. Wilding2 & Narinder Kapur3 1 Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK 2 Department [...]
Friday, December 26th, 2008
Goodbye Innocence
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Merry Christmas!
All hail the return of the unconquered sun! Many thanks to all my friends and family, who have brought such joy (and rum-fueled eggnog) into my life. May your next whirl on our planet be filled with the caress of lovers and the camaraderie of friends. Also, may your enemies get herpes and die.
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
How to Grow a Super-Athlete
How to grow a super athlete Russia is the birthplace of a group of athletes who have affected the World Tennis Association rankings in the same way that zebra mussels have affected the Great Lakes — which is to say, pretty much clogged them. The invasion happened swiftly: at the end of 2001, Russia had [...]
