Tag: University of Washington

• Is memory the warder of the brain?

  I have to be honest, I do not understand the younger generation -well, anymore than it understands me, I suppose. But I recognize that, unlike them, I am not working from a clean slate, and although I have usually tried to think for myself, I am still affected by things past -in fact, I imagine […]

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  October 19, 2022

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  BBC Future, blind spots, Daniel Pauly, generational amnesia, history, memory, paradigm shifts, Peter Kahn, Richard Fisher, Shifting baseline syndrome, Thea Weiss, Thomas Kuhn, trees, University of Washington, windscreen phenomenon, youth

• Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy

  I realize how malleable our memories can be; how a passion in our later life can be attributed to a precocious childhood; how we can bend the past like origamied paper. But, short of recognizably dated diary passages, or a still-living family member (whose memory could be equally suspect), there can be no reliable verification […]

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  August 31, 2022

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  Aeon.co, autumn, Center for Philosophy for Children, children, hibernation, human becomings, Jana Mohr Lone, leaves, naïveté, philosophy, trees, University of Washington

• Time Out, eh?

  Time-outs to wring behavioural change from naughty children are all the rage nowadays. Everywhere you go there seem to be men sitting near their tantrum-laden little boys in the parking lots of stores, or women standing outside of cars fastidiously ignoring the screams of alternately pounding and pouting children confined within. Perhaps this has been […]

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  May 17, 2017

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  babies, BBC news, behavioural change, CBC News, children, Cleopatra, Dr. Arthur Staats, Dr. Montrose Wolf, Journal of Academic Pediatrics, obstetrician, pennies, plastic speculum, quidnunc, salad days, Shakespeare, social exclusion, terracotta statue, time-outs, University of Washington