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dr-steve-mcswain's picture
Apr.21.2013
dale-estey's picture
Feb.15.2013
Come on down and take a look around. It never harms to make an impression (preferably, er, good) on the Internet. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * What Writers Need to Know About Goodreads By Jason Boog  The New York Times has profiled Goodreads, undoubtedly sending hundreds of writers...
pavel-somov's picture
Nov.04.2012
  We tend to think of a brain as an organ, as something solid, monolithic, continuous.  But it's not.  A brain is not an organ but an organization of stand-alone neurons, a centralization of neurons. In my previous post, Neural Tribe Doctrine, I remind the reader of the so-called...
pavel-somov's picture
Aug.19.2012
My second book on mindful eating, Reinventing the Meal, is out.   The formula is simple: to reinvent your eating, open your mind before you open your mouth.  Put differently, to reinvent yourself reinvent your eating. Here's the foreword from Donald Altman, the author of One-...
pavel-somov's picture
Jan.31.2012
Are you again running at the speed of light, with your shoe laces untied?
pavel-somov's picture
Jan.29.2012
The perennial question of "Who am I?" is functionally tantamount to "From where does this mind-form (of "I"/"self") arise?" The answer is simple: from Here.   Who am I? - I am a Here, a Locality of Consciousness, this here-and-now Space that is Aware.   But, of course, I am not this...
pavel-somov's picture
Jan.28.2012
Mind is its own TV: it watches itself. Turn it off.
pavel-somov's picture
Jan.06.2012
"You were in that world, in that context, and you made a very beautiful logic out of it." (Shahrzad, History Continues)
pavel-somov's picture
Dec.31.2011
We seem to have a choice: to study the Variable or to study the Constant. In fact, there is no difference: to study that which always changes is to study the unknowable; to study that which never changes is to study that which is beyond knowledge. Choose your vector of dis-interest.
ashen-venema's picture
Nov.25.2011
I can’t remember where and when I saw the image, but it has stayed alive in my mind.The black and white photograph is of a young woman stepping over a dry stone wall in an arid field on a Greek island. She wears a short embroidered vest over a white blouse, together with a medium-long skirt and...