Month: July 2020

• Must we stop and smell the flowers?

  Apart from passive receptivity, I have had no more opportunity to experience perfumes than any other nose in the average crowd. And even in that chaos, the scents seem to be equally admixed with whatever else clings to us -not all of it encouraging. But I have to believe that the ability to notice different […]

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  July 29, 2020

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  Casey Trimmer, chemical vocabulary, Cleopatra, Dora Goldsmith, gene families, Miasma Theory, odours, olfactory receptor genes, perfume, pheromones, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science Daily, Sean Coughlin, smells, Smithsonian Magazine

• Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

  What is Time, if not a river flowing ever onwards from now -or from an ill-remembered ‘then’ to the same now? Of course, we all know the quotation attributed to Saint Augustine: What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who […]

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  July 22, 2020

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  Aeon.co, calendars, Karl Ove Knausgård, Paul J. Kosmin, pioneer train, Seleucid Era, St. Augustine, Time

• Words, when there aren’t any

  Here’s a thought: What are you thinking – right now? Can you describe what is happening inside your head at any moment you are asked? If you can, is it in a decipherable stream of words… or in something else? And, further, if it is something else, then how could you ever describe it in […]

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  July 15, 2020

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  BBC Future, Dante, Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES), dialogue, Divine Comedy, Fellini, Freud, Jill Bolte Taylor, Kelly Oakes, koan, Mind, monologue, reality, Russell Hurlburt, Science, thinking, thoughts, translation, University of Nevada, words

• The colour of truth is gray

  It’s back again… Well, actually I suppose it never left. We still seem to be obsessed with the genderization of colours -as if it were an established biological given; as if it were as obvious as handedness, or as necessary as the assignation of gender at birth. ‘Pink is for girls and Blue is for […]

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  July 8, 2020

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  ‘gender reveal’ parties, Aeon.co, André Gide, Aston University in Birmingham UK, Blue, colours, cultural preferences, culture, Frontiers in Psychology, Gender and Our Brains, Gina Rippon, Judy DeLoache, Pink, STEM Barbie doll, Vanessa LoBue

• A Day at the Beach

  I like to go to the shore from time to time, albeit a different one than encircles the island where I live. After a summer of relative peace, I long for the rough and unpredictable weather of the extreme west coast of Vancouver Island, with its waves that shoulder their way along rocks, or crash […]

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  July 1, 2020

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  Beaches, foreshore, Long Beach British Columbia, Lotje Hives, marine life, Nipissing University, Schulich School of Education, Tara-Lynn Scheffel, theconversation.com, tidal pools