Yesterday I posted about the power of language in understanding how you feel. After posting, I stumbled upon a study with this gem of a sentence: In an interpretation of …
Verbally labeling an emotion is much like applying a digital technology (language) to an analog signal (emotion and emotional experience). An analog signal is a continuous signal with infinite resolution. …
How many of you have smartphones? And if you have a smartphone, how many apps would you say you use on a weekly basis? Daily basis? Minute-by-minute basis? Many apps …
Yesterday, I posted about Breathless, and how such a beautiful film can have an emotional impact on a culture. Today I’ll talk about how emotions and breathing are inextricably linked. …
Wow. A few weeks ago, I watched the debut of the short film, Breathless, at TEDxMileHigh in Denver. The most important part of this post is that you watch the …
Honest Tea recently ran a fascinating experiment, unbeknownst to its customers. The company set up 60 kiosks around the US where they gave people tea and requested that they deposit …
The long-anticipated baby prince has been born. For many, they feel absolutely joyful. According to the BBC, congratulatory messages have been flooding in from all over the world. For others, …
Have you seen any of the Bourne series? If you have not — slight spoiler alert. In the first movie, The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne is trained to be an …
Music! (Said in a Bill Nye voice) A recent study in Scientific American discusses how groups that sing together, pulse together. As a self-professed lover of music that has soul …
Yes, the Spanish be, not bee. Languages are wonderful tools for understanding how we see the world (see linguistic relativity). In high school (and to this day), one of the …
Charles Darwin and Adam Smith are highly regarded as individuals who promoted very rational ideas. Darwinian evolution, or “survival of the fittest”, could be understood as a mathematical way to …
(Originally posted on Blogspot on January 19, 2009) Today, while packed efficiently in the daladala with about 20 other passengers, I heard over the radio a short Obama intro followed …
(Originally posted on Blogspot on November 4, 2008) Sitting here watching the final moments of the campaign on CNN, I’m wondering how much I’ve actually learned about the candidates over …
(Originally posted on Blogspot on November 3, 2008) I sit here at home in sticky Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, watching the BBC countdown to the American presidential election. The two …