Looking for Someone

6/30/11. Love and the internet.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/04/110704fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all

Top 10 Ways to Protect Your Kids from a High Conflict Divorce

6/30/11. Dr. Joan Kelly offers sound advice about coping with divorce.

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2009/howtodivorce/tips.html

Book Review: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

6/26/11. Stefan Kanfer reviews David Mamet's new book --- joining the club of liberals mugged by reality.

http://www.city-journal.org/2011/bc0608sk.html

Joseph Epstein: Heavy Sentences

6/23/11. Joseph Epstein reviews Stanley Fish's "On How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One."

http://www.newcriterion.com/articleprint.cfm/Heavy-sentences-7053

Timothy Leary - Psychologist, Huckster, Personality Researcher, Booster of LSD...

6/23/11. Tune out, tune in, and drop into a newly discovered collection of Leary's papers.

"...Cultural historians will turn to the collection in an effort to shed greater light on this paradoxical figure who typified the acid-fueled, utopian indulgences of a far younger generation..."

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/06/turn-on-tune-in-drop-by-the-archives-timothy-leary-at-the-nypl.html

Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight

6/26/11. Reminds me of a quote from psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan:

"We are all more human than otherwise."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/health/23lives.html?hpw

The Brain on Trial

6/20/11. If the brains of criminals are different from law-abiding citizens, should we rethink our laws about criminal responsibility and punishment?

n.b. Dr. Brian Weeks recommended this article.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-brain-on-trial/8520/

A Schizophrenic, a Slain Worker, Troubling Questions

6/17/11.

"The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven."

--- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/us/17MENTAL.html?_r=1&ref=health

Anthony Weiner and the National Adultery Ritual

6/16/11. What's the matter with men today?

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-national-adultery-ritual/

What is Social Psychology?

6/15/11. A look at social psychology, the conscious and unconscious mind, and evolution.

http://edge.org/conversation/social_psychological_narrative

Tim Harford: "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure"

6/15/11.  Advice I gave to my kids:  "Everybody makes missnakes."

Ezra Klein interviews author Tim Harford.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/tim-harford-on-failure/2011/05/19/AGB1SvCH_blog.html

Jerome Kagan: The Temperamental Thread

6/14/11. More information about this splendid book.

http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=23486

See my review  June 21, 2010 post.

http://notesofapsychologywatcher.blogspot.com/2010/06/temperamental-thread-how-genes-culture.html

Joseph Epstein: Duh, Bor-ing

6/8/11. Interesting observations about boredom.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/duh-boring/

David Brooks: IMHO

6/8/11. The good sense of the sense of humility.

http://brooks.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/imho/?pagemode=print

Collapse of a Rotten Edifice

6/7/11. Some elites among us --- the more equals --- have cornered the market with their haughty, self-righteous, morally high ground sermons standing on quicksand.  These big shots - e.g. Spitzer, DSK, Edwards - have powerful rifles with bad aims,  strong IQs, and rotten judgment.

http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/

Monday Quotations

6/6/04

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from
which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."

---Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)


"I cannot grasp all that I am."

--- Augustine (354 - 430)


"Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being."

--- Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

Dalia Skye Ceresnie's Blog

6/3/11. My smart and beautiful grand-niece has a blog. I wonder what she will do at 6 months?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/us/04kevorkian.html?hpw

R.I.P. Dr. Jack Kevorkian

6/3/11. Dr. Death dies.

His blunt, passionate, audacious, often reckless support for the right to die made him both a hero and villain.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/us/04kevorkian.html?hpw


"...Over 130 people died painlessly with the help of these machines and the doctor who invented them. The first was Janet Adkins, a former college instructor on disability, who resolved to kill herself the day she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and did so, with Dr Kevorkian in attendance, in his rusty van in a Michigan campsite. Those who followed her seemed unremarkable: a bus driver, a doctor, a supervisor at a pillow factory and so on, all terminally ill, or so they believed. Studies of those who sought out Dr Kevorkian, however, suggest that though many had a worsening illness, cancer perhaps or a neurological disease, it was not usually terminal. Autopsies showed five people had no disease at all. Those who came to him were more likely to be women than men, often unmarried and typically ill-at-ease when talking to doctors. Little over a third were in pain. Some presumably suffered from no more than hypochondria or depression..."
http://www.economist.com/node/18802492

National Dating Standards Lowered

6/3/11. The Federal Government took steps to lower the national dating standards, although many groups protested that mandating lower standards was not possible.

http://www.theonion.com/video/national-dating-standards-lowered,20647/

On David Eagleman

6/2/11. A man of many talents.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/cms/printthis.php?file=feature5.php&issue=2011-06-01

Thomas Sowell on Seductive Beliefs

6/1/11. The toxic mix of envy, haves, and have nots.

Seductive Beliefs        http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell053111.php3

Seductive Beliefs II    http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell060111.php3