“Old Heraclitus, who was indeed a very great sage, discovered the most marvelous of all psychological laws: the regulative function of opposites. He called it enantiodromia, a running contrariwise, by which he meant that sooner or later everything runs into its opposite.” –Carl Jung There’s nothing more fun than discovering!…
“It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” —Mark Twain When I went to visit my grandma as a young teenager, I remember showing off what I thought were my amazing superwoman skills. If you think I do…
The global monetary system is a big blobby glob of sticky goo that somehow keeps on slugging along through endless waste and war. But stop what you’re doing and listen. Chirp, chirp, chirp…peep, peep, peep…chitter, chitter, twitter, twitter, TWEET! On April 30, Fortune published an article: Why Japan’s currency is…
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”—Albert Einstein A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon an Einstein lecture by Douglas Hofstadter. He researches how we create analogies and how they permeate our languages and creative thought processes in physics and mathematics. In his research, he found…
No grandma’s chicken noodle soup…no herbal teas, yoga mats, massages, workout gear…no green smoothies or turmeric shots…no vitamins or herbs…no communication…no continuity…and not much common sense. This week was the first time in my life that I’ve ever been admitted to a hospital from the Emergency Room. I’ve delivered babies…
“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.” —Isaac Newton In February, we saw something extraordinary—the price of gold was near all-time record highs, and the gold and silver miners were more oversold than ever before in history. There’s never…
When I was a college student at Indiana University in Bloomington, I often went to Collins Hall for lunch. Later I learned that Collins was where lived the infamous Jim Jones who led a mass suicide of 918 people in Guyana, on November 18, 1978. At his direction, followers in…
Something happened to me coming home from Malaysia. On my flight from Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo, a skinny American gal with long straight black hair and big round glasses sat down next to me. She looked like a character from anime, so it didn’t surprise me when a moppy-haired Japanese…
I opened my eyes, lifted the shade, and squinted out the window. A big, radiant sun was rising over a pristine white-washed city, surrounded by an army of idled cargo ships awaiting their call of duty. After seventeen straight hours of feeling like a canned sardine in my economy airplane…
I was looking into media psychology when my research led me to James F. Tracy, an ex-tenured Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He was fired in 2016 after accusing the government of hiring crisis actors for an incident that he didn’t think was real….
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