There is nothing good about blindly abiding to certain paradigms, simply because you were instructed by authoritative figures from the stages of infancy to do so ...
- Vanesh Naidoo
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... or how the human brain is wired. Beware we'll be hearing from David Brooks, Frank Rich, William Gibson (Thomas Kuhn), and a preview of a Noam Chomsky and Robert Trivers discussion.
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After a long service outage, our home Internet is back, and I can post Baby Blogging pictures. Of course, it's not as easy to get those as it used to be, because SteelyKid is always on the move these days:
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Broca's Area, 1865:
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Time's cover story this week is about Mother Teresa. Specifically, it's about her newly released personal correspondence in which she repeatedly expresses grave doubts about the truth of Christianity, even to the point of questioning whether God exists.
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I couldn't agree more. I feel the same about answering a ringing phone, particularly in this age of easy caller ID. Spending time with my kids comes first, and there are plenty of times when I just let it ring.... as for cellular phones, there's a reason the word "cell" is in there. I think we all need to remember that this IS an option to answer or not.