Fiction for Good Living
For a long time literary critics and philosophers have argued, along with the novelist George Eliot, that one of fiction’s main jobs is to “enlarge men’s sympathies.” Recent lab work…
Interesting
Sunday Ramble
I never did post all the photos I wanted from my last Sunday Ramble and there’s been another ramble since! (Click on any photo to enlarge.) This old Hi-Fi cabinet…
No Translation Needed
Fabulous images in different media from Russian artists in LiveJournal. This one is my favourite because it transcends alphabets: Тоже люди. But a close second, vivid thumbnails bursting with life…
Does Facebook Make You Lonelier?
It might. According to Moira Burke, interviewed by Stephen Marche for The Atlantic, her studies show that people who compose comments on their “friends’” walls are less lonely than people…
Winnipeg Web of Angels
It’s taken me all week to recover from my week of travels, and I’m off again tomorrow. Winnipeg was a whirl of media, a live TV interview early morning, and…
Braving the Police Station
Some of you may remember how I had to overcome my shyness to do the final research for Web of Angels. I’m very comfortable in interviews and I can do…
Monday Sun
The sky is shining this morning and I have a bit of time to post a few pictures from a walk I took earlier in the month. (If only the…
Saturn’s North Pole–a Hexagon
APOD: 2012 January 22 – Saturns Hexagon Comes to Light. Filed under: Beautiful, Interesting Tagged: astronomy
Dignity and Solidarity
“If I were to register and cooperate… I would be giving helpless consent to the denial of practically all of the things which give me incentive to live,” he said…
Momo by Emile Ajar
I loved this book so much I made my husband read it, which was no trial for him as he is still quoting it. I first heard about Momo and…
God and Resisting Temptation
God references slipped into tests decreased student’s belief that they controlled their own destiny, researchers report, but made them more resistant to junk food temptation. via God’s Situational Effects «…
Menstruating in India–Radical Change
When Arunachalam Muruganantham hit a wall in his research on creating a sanitary napkin for poor women, he decided to do what most men typically wouldn’t dream of. He wore…
Schizophrenia vs DID (dissociative Identity disorder)
Thanks to Becca’s comment on my previous genesis post, I thought it would be useful to post a quick explanation of the differences. People who are schizophrenic hear voices. So…
Willpower and Headspace
The first quarter of Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister (researcher) and John Tierney (journalist) is packed with fascinating research conducted by Baumeister and his colleagues.…
Unknown Millionaire Author
When Amanda Hocking was a depressed 17 year old, she wrote a novel about a girl who falls for vampire brothers. It was rejected by 50 publishers and it isn’t…
Congratulations Tessa Bonhomme and David Pelletier
Picture this: tiny figure skater and hulking hockey pro paired up to dance music on ice. That is Battle of the Blades, a Canadian reality tv show with the prize…
Happy Tears–the Horsie Runs
This is one of those wonderful stories that give you faith. I won’t say anything about it but let you watch for yourself and provide a link to all the…
On Writing
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer…
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
This is a photo of a Thanksgiving Service in France 93 years ago: October 13 1918. It was held in a chapel in Notre-Dame-de-Grace. Did these Canadian troops know that…
Software for Writers: Scrivener
I’ll post a complete review later but I just have to tell you folks about this. When I think of all the work that Scrivener could have saved me in…