Tag: Weltanschauung

• Frailty -Thy Name is Woman?

  There seems to be no end in the struggle to differentiate men from women. You’d have thought that by now, we would have settled the boundary disputes, agreed on who owns what, and set up market stalls on anything remaining. It’s all shared territory anyway. Of course, maybe that’s naive. Maybe there are fundamental discrepancies […]

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  December 20, 2017

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  BBC news, Confirmation bias, Gender, infections, intelligence, man colds, mathematical model, men and women, microbial intelligence, microorganisms, Nature Communications, perspective, Robert Frost, Royal Holloway University, viral behaviour, viruses, Weltanschauung

• 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

• A Gift of Age

  Is philosophy a reward of age, or is age itself a gift that metaphysics merely opens: Weltanschauung? Is it just that there is a time when thoughts flow along different and unaccustomed neurons? Or are they maybe shunted to the diminishing residua of nerve cells that are still firing? I ask myself these questions sometimes when night closes […]

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  July 28, 2015

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  Age, age is a gift, birthday gifts, gift, hormonal therapy, metaphysics, Mother’s Day, nerve cells, philosophy, Weltanschauung

• To Have, or not to Have

  There are two worlds out there, two Magisteria. Two contrasting inclinations that pass each other on the street without a wave. Strangers who sometimes know each other well. They sit, unwittingly close to each other, in the waiting room of my office. They chat and smile obligingly, trusting that their ignorance of the other is […]

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  June 2, 2015

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  acceptance, autonomy, Bell curve, Beneficence, decision to have a baby, Hamlet, Magisteria, Non-Maleficence, outliers, paedophobe, political correctness, pregnancy, regression to the mean, Selfish Shallow and Self-absorbed, societal apologue, tradition, tyranny of the Norm, Weltanschauung