Tag: Pandora’s box

• Noceboes? How Cute.

  I have always been fascinated by neologisms –new words that substitute for more commonly used ones. They can be clever, rude, or just plain silly, but often their point is to get noticed –or perhaps draw attention to their inventors. There was a time –before social media, at least- when we used to applaud people […]

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  May 2, 2018

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  Alexandra Tinnermann, ethics, Functional MRI scanner, neologisms, noceboes, Pandora’s box, placebo effect, placeboes, Science, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, zero sum game

• Trippingly on the Tongue

  I’ve always liked the poetry of metaphor with its imagery revealing nuances hiding shyly in the background. Words alone sometimes convey their meanings too narrowly, whereas metaphors allow imagination to roam more freely, only loosely tethered to definitions. After all, depending on the context of its use, meaning is often reliant on Weltanschauung. Such is […]

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  December 13, 2017

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  androcentricism, BBC future story, Bowie State University in Maryland, business woman, Caren Goldberg, Feminist movement, Gay Bryant, Gender, glass ceiling, glass cliff, glass escalator, labyrinth, metaphor, Michelle Ryan, Minotaur, Pandora’s box, sticky floor metaphor, tic, Tourette’s syndrome, University of Exeter, Weltanschauung

• Why do we Know something?

  Knowledge is interesting. But what is it, exactly? What does it mean to say you know something? Plato defined it as being justified true belief, but is it? Take Bertrand Russel’s famous thought experiment: the ‘stopped clock case’, for example. Alice looks at a clock and says it is two o’clock. Well, because the clock […]

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  July 15, 2015

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  Bertrand Russel, Creationism, endometrial biopsy, Gettier Problem, irregular menstrual bleeding, Justified true belief, knowledge, Marcel Proust, menopause, Pandora’s box, Plato, the Why Question, ultrasound