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Links of the Month: January 2024

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Dave Pollard

cartoon by the extraordinary Will McPhail I love Will McPhail’s work. The mole in this cartoon could represent any of the ‘sides’ or actors in any of the current wars. Of course there are atrocities, and it’s tempting to take … Continue reading →

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Sarapocial Relationships

Posted on November 10, 2023 by Dave Pollard

Cartoon from the New Yorker by the late, great Lee Lorenz A parasocial relationship is that between an individual and some fictional character or some real or idealized group — an entity you can never really know. So I might … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: October 2023

Posted on October 14, 2023 by Dave Pollard

from the extraordinary Michael Leunig “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” These are the words of the inimitable Yoda, and we see the truth of this … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: March 2023

Posted on March 13, 2023 by Dave Pollard

cartoon by Michael Leunig Letting go of the idea of free will is both liberating and terrifying. As I watch the world devolve into fascism and nuclear brinksmanship, I long to believe this is just a temporary aberration in human … Continue reading →

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we do what we do

Posted on February 13, 2022 by Dave Pollard

I took this shot a while back I stroll along the river shore and wonder: Is there anything the plastic human brain cannot be made to think, believe, and hence to do? Any atrocity, any outrage, any cruelty? There are … Continue reading →

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When Meaning Loses Its Meaning

Posted on December 2, 2021 by Dave Pollard

Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework (2021). Adds liminal domains, points of uncertainty or paradox, notably the aporetic domain, from whence, notably, NZ’s Jacinda Ardern chose to cede decision-making authority to health experts as being better equipped than politicians to determine the … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: November, 2021

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Dave Pollard

cartoon by the ever-brilliant Sandra Boynton I have been pretty grouchy sometimes in the last few months (like, whenever I read anything about COP26, or the racist murder trials in the US). I know there is no justification for it, … Continue reading →

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Are Humans Inherently Violent?

Posted on July 24, 2021 by Dave Pollard

image: creative commons CC0 license from pixabay Ask scientists the question about our inherent nature, and you will unearth a spectrum of answers, with most clustered at two poles: That we are inherently a violent, covetous, acquisitive and war-prone species, … Continue reading →

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FollowIt Test

Posted on June 12, 2021 by alan

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Links of the Quarter: June 2019

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Dave Pollard

image of the Maldives by David Mark from Pixabay, CC0; the islands will likely be completely submerged due to sea level rise from glacial melt by mid-century I’ve recently updated the (highly subjective) list of my ‘best’ 94 posts. That’s out … Continue reading →

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