On Facebook, you are what you like
When Facebook users clicks on the ‘like’ button, they are not only approving a video, a friend’s status or a page, they are revealing more than they think about themselves to perfect strangers. A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge have analysed 58,000 Facebook users’ Likes and were able to paint a very […]
Mr Happy Man – I Love You
Just when I was feeling down, the Universe send me to this video. There is something reminiscent here of the Free Hug campaign. After watching this I couldn’t help thinking of the story always shared by Dr John Demartini – he used to do seminars with Louise Hay. And in all her seminars she used […]
Communication Breakdown: The Effects of Social Media and Texting On Relationships
When the line at Starbucks is long, when class gets dull, when conversations get personal, when loneliness strikes, we grab the phone like an Old West quick draw. Though our generation is marked by social media, experts are anxious of its effects on relationships, specifically our capacity for communication. “We’re setting ourselves up for trouble,” […]
The Rise of Voyeurism in Reality TV and Internet
Television became the de-facto voyeurism tool with the arrival of “reality television” like the many incarnations of Big Brother or Survivor. The seemingly random opportunity to see naked bodies is like playing a sexually driven slot machine in the privacy of your own home. You become not only addicted to the moving images, the lights […]
On Kurzweil: The Sleight of Hand That Makes It Seem We Understand the Mind
Is the way we talk about the human mind messing with our ability to think about it clearly? The philosopher Colin McGinn is a tough book reviewer. He looks like a cop in an old movie about cops and robbers, and writes like one. And when he decided to take down Ray Kurzweil’s new book,How to […]