Now you can feel homesick from the comforts of your own home, thanks to a modern mental illness called solastalgia. It’s a relatively new word, derived from the Latin terms solacium and algia (meaning solace and pain respectively) by philosopher Glenn Albrecht. Solastalgia is the word you would use to describe the incredible sadness people feel […]
Real–Life Superheroes: A New Breed of Activist
Interesting article in the Minneapolis/St. Paul CityPages about a new breed of activist who don masks and clean up crime in the streets. Also, check out the Real-Life Superhero Map (via Google Maps) to see if a real-life supe is patrolling your city.
Razor-Sharp Intuition and the Ultimate Face Crime
In Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink, we learn of American psychologist John Gottman’s mathmatics of love and divorce, and the cognitive technique called Thin-Slicing. Thin Slicing, simply stated, relies more on hunches and less on deliberate decision making. Why is this a potentially a good idea? Because our subconscious minds sprint into furious computational activity at any given […]
