Entries from February 2010

February 3, 2010

Ineffable by David Eagleman

Vladimir Nabokov percieved numbers as colors. He had synethesia, a mixture of the senses. David Eagleman has his Ph.D in neuroscience and wrote a book about it. In his spare time Eagleman writes fiction. He recently published Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlife, which is 40 vignettes about the afterlife. It’s an amazing book. Imaginative [...]

February 2, 2010

Why Sri Lankans Don’t Get PTSD and Forcing Amy Grant to Apologize

Part of the problem (my personal problem) with blogging is that I don’t always (for various reason) go into as much depth as I’d like about subjects. For instance, I’ve read numerous articles about a variety of subjects and I’d like to share them and dissect them and critique them and expand on them. Sometimes [...]