Tag: David Robson

• Preposterosity

  What is it to be absurd? Can we even wrap our heads around the concept when to do so threatens to unravel the fabric we each wear from day to day, risks unweaving the very rainbow we have come to worship? But, just because something doesn’t make sense, doesn’t necessarily make it absurd, of course.…

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  June 2, 2021

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  abstract art, absurdity, art, David Robson, fluid compensation, Kazimir Malevich, meaning maintenance model, Psyche.co, Steven Heine

• To this hour bewail the injury

  It seems I grew up in a male purdah -I think all men did, and perhaps most still do. And yet, the triumph of women in academics, business, and sports in particular, has begun to open the male curtain a little. No longer would most of us be surprised to find women competing at the…

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  February 24, 2021

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  BBC Future, concussion, cyclic hormones, David Robson, hormones, https://musingsonwomenshealth.com/2016/10/12/women-are-from-earth/, metabolic differences, Michigan State University, Persian physician Rhazes, purdah, sexual differences, sports, Tracey Covassin, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

• Illeism, or Sillyism?

  Who would have thought that it might be good to talk about yourself in the third person? As if you weren’t you, but him? As if you weren’t actually there, and anyway, you didn’t want yourself to find out you were talking about him in case it seemed like, well, gossip? I mean, only royalty,…

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  June 17, 2020

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  David Robson, Ethan Kross, Igor Grossmann, illeism, perspective change, PsyArxiv, rhetoric, rhetorical device, rumination, The British Psychological Society, third-personism, University of Michigan, University of Waterloo