Daily Archives: March 15, 2008

Jill Bolte Taylor

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 15, 2008

Zo links to Taylor’s talk at TED.  Amazing stuff!  Shakes some positive reality into the discussion of the bicameral mind of the individual.  Not at all like the cultural anthropology of Jaynes’ pop-science that provided a hook on which to hang the classic, “Sects and Death.”

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Turdus migratorius – a tragedy in seventeen syllables

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 15, 2008

Harbinger of spring Red breast reflecting sunlight Lies dead in the road * * * This is a true story. Really. A few days ago I chatted with a clerk about the warming weather. We agreed the robins weren’t back yet, but with cranes on the marsh and geese flying north it wouldn’t be long [...]

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