Electricity is in the air. The anticipation of spring. People are antsy to break outdoors, sip fruity cocktails and eat French fries at any one of the billions of beer gardens inundated with merry makers relishing a warm breeze instead of winter’s bitter bite.
I, too, am feeling antsy. Chicago made me fall in love with [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Spring in Mongolia
Posted in Musings, Travel, tagged camels, dream, Mongolia, sand dunes, Spring, Travel, tweet, wanderlust on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Violent Monkeys?
Posted in Musings, tagged cuddle, monkeys, pizza, sex, violence on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How will the world end? In millions of years the sun will gobble the earth, or an asteroid collision in 50 years, or will we blow ourselves up in a mere…ten? Is it inevitable that people will destroy one another? Are humans innately violent?
I have mixed feelings about this. In my darker [...]
Stuck on a Toilet
Posted in Musings, tagged NaNoWriMo, sponge bath, Toilet, toolbox on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been hard getting back into the swing of writing. Maybe I enjoyed my February vacation a little too much and my chemicals are addicted to fuzzy TV (we don’t have cable). Sigh… but I’ll start reading my NaNoWriMo thingy thang soon and maybe I’ll post something here!!!
Or this could just be a [...]
Utilitarians Have Brain Damage
Posted in Musings, Reads, tagged dark matter, ethics, mind, morality, science, scienctific american mind, utilitarian on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Utilitarianism: an ethical philosophy that champions the welfare of the majority over the individual.
There is an article in the most recent issue of Scientific American Mind titled: “When Morality is Hard to Like: How do we juggle evidence and emotions to make a moral decision.”
Scientists have located an area of the brain that has an [...]
