It is the triumph over the foible of expectation over observation, when experience has primacy. This is the self-challenge: Are we and our perceptions what we *want* or expect them to be...and if they are, do we then, scrutinize them, at least slightly more than we would do, otherwise? To insure that our self-serving bias isn't the thumb on the scale?


Sometimes, however, it is more beautiful to embrace the error...

I love the way people's names hint at their professions. (And the way many names came from professions) Mike is mic and Pollan is pollen. Speak into the microphone and pollinate fertile minds. A weird*word echo occupation to name to occupation. How many people practice their names because of subliminal influence?

Michael Pollan Offers 64 Ways to Eat Food - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
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A Q. and A. with the author Michael Pollan, whose new book "Food Rules" offers 64 ways to improve your eating habits.


Weird: from Old English wyrd (“‘fate, destiny’”), through weohrtan (“‘to become’”).

Theory in science is much more substantive than crackpots want you to think.

Those who promote Intelligent Design----want to steal the credibility of science. Credibility in science is rigorously tested, not granting favoritism.

Reading THE CREATORS

----DANIEL J. BOORSTIN

The Birth of the Spectator: From Ritual to Drama.

Songs to Dionysus would bring back spring. Ritual was insurance against spring frost, but in every man there was a maenad, dissatisfied with stale rhythm.

Everyone was twice born, torn between wish for the familiar return and hope for the intoxicating new.