Tag: hubris

• In praise of an empty brain

  How do I love thee, Age? Let me count the ways… Well, actually I’m not actually going to, because of late, I’ve fallen out with it. Perhaps it’s just my memory that’s falling, though: I was about to parody Shakespeare -it’s what I knew I knew, and yet I didn’t (it was Elizabeth Barrett Browning. […]

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  May 26, 2021

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  awe, beginner’s mind, Christian Jarrett, climate, Enlightenment, expertise, experts, French revolution, history, hubris, intellectual humility, knowledge, peak knowledge, Psyche.co, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Shoshin, St. Augustine, the Little Ice Age, Zen

• Look the other way, please.

  There really are inconvenient truths, aren’t there? There are some things that seem to slip quietly under the radar -things that go unremarked until they  are brought our our attention. And even then, they are perhaps dismissed as unimportant -or worse, accepted and rationalized in an attempt to justify them as tools that enable the […]

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  March 17, 2021

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  Aeon.co, Brian Knutson, empathy, ethics, experimental animals, hubris, Jaak Panksepp, King Lear, Kristin Andrews, laboratory animals, Longfellow, Messerli Research Institute, rats, sentience, Shakespeare, Susana Monsó, The Day is Done, Travellers, York University

• Biding the Pelting of this Pitiless Storm

  Hubris –the extreme arrogance that was so offensive to the old Greek gods that they reacted with punishment and an exile from grace- is that what this is? I’m not sure anymore… It’s not, perhaps, so obvious as the vaulting ambitions of a Macbeth or the arrogance of a Caesar, nor even the overweening pride […]

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  November 16, 2016

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  antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, azithromycin, Caesarian sections, Cassandra, cefazolin, Here be dragons, hubris, Jeremiad, Julius Caesar, NEJM, New England Journal of Medicine, Oedipus Rex, post-op infections, pride, prophylactic antibiotics, Tita and colleagues, unintended consequences