I’ve been thinking about the term lizard brain. I hear it used when we’re referring to the behaviors humans exhibit when they react to feeling afraid. Violent, argumentative, fawning, running away. It makes me think of Komodo dragons and crocodiles. So cold-blooded! I stood on an ecological walkway last week, watching a clustering of turtles…
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I work on WordPress.com, believe Epicureanism is so much better than Stoicism it's weird people even think they're philosophical competitors, and have a dog named Gracie.
Thermodynamics and the Arrow of Time
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the second law of thermodynamics. Fancy explanation: The arrow of time is the “one-way direction” or “asymmetry” of time. The thermodynamic arrow of time is provided by the second law of thermodynamics, which says that in an isolated system, entropy tends to increase with time. Wikipedia lol Gracie explanation: Heat…
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Latin Friday: Zeus Turned into a Goose
My team was sharing about weird school memories, and I explained how I learned being the Latin Club president meant I could make a morning announcement whenever I wanted. I began a series called Latin Friday, where I’d read a wildly paired down tl;dr version of a Greek Myth. They asked me to reinstate this…
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Disrupting binaries
A small dose on how ideas of light and dark or masculine and feminine do harm. Let’s have healthier polarities to support a healthier society.
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Life in RSS
I switched away from Facebook and slowed down my Twitter usage to read new content via RSS feed. Here are my feeds + how much I’m enjoying it.
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The real conspiracy surrounding the Moon Landings. The real-est. Ever.
When I went into my yoga class tonight, I steered past my typical section of the room because it smelled bad. I’m not sure what the source was, and I practiced “letting go” by finding a new spot in the studio. We settled into our various spots and worked through several postures holding our knees,…
Read MoreEinstein, Bad Quotes, and You
I’m convinced most people don’t know what Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity really means or anything about what he did beyond that. We take for granted that he was really smart and then quote him as a philosophical piece of evidence for our own agendas. I have heard lots of people reference him to justify…
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4 Minutes, 9 Seconds of Joy
It’s been a heavy week on a lot of layers. No need to go into the deets – we’ve all been watching the news and also have our personal lives. I find it pretty easy to slip into a cloud of heaviness and gloom, and the Studio Rio version of “Sexual Healing” has been like…
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Jupiter protects us. The giant, red, gaseous planet’s gravitational pull distracts asteroids swirling around the median of our solar system, looking for a place to land. It calls to them with its massive force “Come to me”. One of those rocks could destroy us. Maybe not all of us, but enough to take down our…
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What if every story was a universe we created?
Hey Diddle Diddle The cat and the fiddle The cow jumped over the moon. The little dough laughed to see such a sight, and the dish ran away with the spoon. I have this story memorized by heart. It’s my son’s favorite 4 page cardboard book. He’s one years old, and he’s been staring at…
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Puddles of Thought 