SOURCE: https://www.imperiumpublication.com/post/the-butterfly-effect I’ve always marvelled at the remote possibility of a butterfly’s wings setting off a cascade of chain around the world . Hence the semi-famous “butterfly effect”. However, this is far more of a metaphorical device, than it is a concretely provable occurrence. It ties in with the notion that one cannot possibly..
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Source: Gary Larson, he of the Far Side I’m sure you’ve noticed, as I have, that oftentimes you can add a bit of levity to a serious situation by…turning the intangible elements of it into humanoid-like characters. And let’s face it – it cements one’s understanding in a playful way. Think back to your early..
Think of this blog as a semi-sequel, if you will, of my December blog all about confabulation… that is, the things that you remembered that just weren’t so. But in this instance…it’s all about the things that you were told over the years that, lo and behold, turned out to be untrue. Yes, misinformation is..
IMAGE SOURCE: Neurosciencenews.com, https://neurosciencenews.com/creativity-zone-neuroscience-25697/ (Yes, I couldn’t resist a Dr. Seuss-esque opening title, so help me.) Have you ever wondered about how some phenomenal outputs of the pop culture panorama were created in a few minutes, but some took a painstaking number of hours, or days, multiple revisions, etc.? For those immersed in statistics,..
Image from Don McMinn, 2022 (Not to be confused with “Spirit in the Sky” by Norman Greenbaum.) Have you ever had those moments when you wish you’d given the perfect clapback or pithy retort in some situation – but it’s too late? This sums up the essence of the French idiom, “L’esprit de l’escalier”, or..
Image Source: Doucefleur/iStock It is all to easy to be under the impression, or jump to the conclusion, that our society has become worse in so many aspects. This is not so much in terms of measurable factors such as socio-economic status or health metrics, but less tangible ones – notably civility, or lack thereof (rudeness)…
Ah, yes, the impeccable wisdom of George Costanza. Before the current “AI Age”, as we know it, the term “confabulation” hadn’t really entered the common vernacular. Sure, it existed, but it was more of the esoteric domain of clinicians and psych researchers. Fundamentally, confabulation is the filling in of gaps in an anecdote or recalled..
You know, whenever I’ve been given a rather dense report or document of some sort to digest, I confess that (most of the time) I’ve scrutinized all parts of it very carefully, making margin notes and highlights and so forth. I’ve even read through the appendices, as painful as some may find that. But I..
As my inaugural blog for my author website, I brainstormed a list of possible topics under the theme of self-help and personal success. The one that jumped out at me, perhaps in an anticlimactic fashion, was all about ancient Greek characters–posing the question, which one have YOU been? (Or feel like you are presently?) Yes,..
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