Category Archives: mindworks

Video: The Power of Empathy — a quick animated clip that can make you a better person

Posted on October 3, 2015 by randomyriad

Originally posted on Vox Populi:
This animated clip features Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, providing some quick insights into the difference between sympathy and empathy, and explaining why empathy…

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1982: Science in Songs

Posted on September 13, 2015 by randomyriad
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Present-Tense Anthropology™

Posted on September 12, 2015 by randomyriad

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w2BfJKRpJR8/UpermRNc92I/AAAAAAAABJw/KirXDcGGG4s/s1600/ARMCHAIR+IMGP0185+crop.jpg “It isn’t revolutionaries and terrorist who make the nuclear power plants melt of blow their tops, or the electricity grids crash, or the automated trading systems go all higgeldy-piggeldy and write their billions down…

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A Short Note and Three Poems From My Journal on 2/1/14

Posted on September 7, 2015 by randomyriad

2/1/14 I like the controlled, refined space of my work table when I write in my notebook. Scene Change My dreams have moved into a new house, with glass doors and religion, Fat babies scurry here and there happily unaware. … Continue reading →

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Two Little Notes, A Fictional Concept and A Dream

Posted on August 23, 2015 by randomyriad

I am not sure where these two little thoughts came from, but they were written in my notebook by me. You can never go boldly into the land the land of gods: you must slide in unnoticed or fall in … Continue reading →

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