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One theory, said Ivry, is that the region is predicting what’s going to happen in the very near future based on a lifetime of tracking what has worked and what hasn’t in the past and adjusting its movements accordingly. The cerebellum, said Ivry, is a “giant pattern recognition
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“The way to fame goes through the palaces, the way to happiness goes through the markets, the way to virtue goes through the deserts. —CHINESE PROVERB” Excerpt From: Tolstoy, Leo. “A Calendar of Wisdom.” Scribner, 2010-05-11. Apple Books.
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“And conscious men now wrote and crossed out and careted and rewrote their compositions in laborious mimesis of the older divine utterances.” Excerpt From: Jaynes, Julian. “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (hmhbooks.com), 2000-08-15. Apple Books. Often when I was writing,
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I posted this morning on Tumblr about making waffles for the kids, and afterwards it occurred to me that I could share a list of my recommended cookbooks, since a good cookbook saved my butt today. So far I have four that I really think everyone who cooks should have:
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“[The] science of punishment, which in itself is one of the most ignorant and offensive types of action known to man, a vestige of the lowest level of human development, lower than that of a child or a madman.” Excerpt From: Tolstoy, Leo. “A Calendar of Wisdom.” Scribner, 2010-05-11. Apple
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And because a physical space in the world can always be returned to, so we feel irrationally, somehow certain, impossibly certain, that we should be able to return again to some often unfinished relationship, some childhood scene or situation or regretted outburst of love or temper or to undo some
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ebonysquid.com/2022/09/07/smile/ It's weird to be able to remember both the moment that my dad lost his temper and I was terrified of him and that moment when I lost my temper and saw the terror in the eyes of my son.
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I’m sitting in the car line waiting for school to get out to take my kids home. My engine is off, but so many others are on that I can feel the vibration and hear the low rumble, so much that I keep checking the dash to verify the
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It’s been a good day so far, though I don’t want to jinx it by saying so. I’ve kept up with my commitments and obligations, including the commitments and obligations I made to myself. Sometimes those are the hardest to puzzle out. The day was going along