Reads tagged with “psychology”

Salvador Dalí on Decadence, Death and Immortality: The 1958 Interview

What Freud to antimatter, or what pre-birth memories and lucid dreams have to do with the ego of genius.

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Illegal Drugs, Explained in LEGO: A 1970s PSA

The architecture of addiction, or why mixed metaphors might be more harmful than marijuana.

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Comic Books for Grown-Ups: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction

Seeing the world in six-panel strips, or what Allen Ginsberg has to do with the wonders of zygotes.

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How Music and Language Mimicked Nature to Evolve Us

How auditory cheesecake was made with mother nature’s milk, or why our brains were not designed for reading.

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The Book of Symbols: Carl Jung’s Catalog of the Unconscious

Why Sarah Palin identifies with the grizzly bear, or what the unconscious knows but doesn’t reveal.

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On Loving Animals: A Visual Study of Affection and Its Extremes

What in-bred pugs and retired show cats have to do with the human capacity for selflessness and solipsism.

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Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge

Going beyond biology’s limits, or how laboratory advances will change the way we think about the law.

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Driving with Plato: Life Lessons from History’s Greatest Minds

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Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity

Why creativity is like LEGO, or what Richard Dawkins has to do with Susan Sontag and Gandhi.

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A Field Guide to the North American Family: A Meditation on Humanness

A poetic reflection on the human condition, or what fiscal responsibility has to do with freedom.

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Reads tagged with “psychology”

What Freud to antimatter, or what pre-birth memories and lucid dreams have to do with the ego of genius.

The architecture of addiction, or why mixed metaphors might be more harmful than marijuana.

Seeing the world in six-panel strips, or what Allen Ginsberg has to do with the wonders of zygotes.

How auditory cheesecake was made with mother nature’s milk, or why our brains were not designed for reading.

Why Sarah Palin identifies with the grizzly bear, or what the unconscious knows but doesn’t reveal.

What in-bred pugs and retired show cats have to do with the human capacity for selflessness and solipsism.

Going beyond biology’s limits, or how laboratory advances will change the way we think about the law.

Why creativity is like LEGO, or what Richard Dawkins has to do with Susan Sontag and Gandhi.

A poetic reflection on the human condition, or what fiscal responsibility has to do with freedom.

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