3+ week, 5+ day ago   (588+ words) Sometimes the couple stop a song intermittently and comment on it briefly before continuing the music, same with movie. What I’ve noticed in most of these Gen-Zs’ facial expressions is how shocked the person(s) is, especially females, to the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (839+ words) Computer geeks are often nerds. Many nerds feel uncomfortable in social situations and awkward in groups. However, learning to move past this discomfort is important for successful networking. With that in mind, here is a puzzle that connects social confidence…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (48+ words) mindmatters.ai For secularists who do not take this story literally, it can also be understood as a metaphorical literary device on the fall of Man, as there is no doubt that anyone who tries to play the part of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (565+ words) Enter Rey: Mary Sue or Audience Insert? Think about it like this. If an audience member goes to see a romantic comedy but the movie promising to be a romantic comedy turns out to be a slasher film, that audience…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (415+ words) Contemplating cave art, Ottawa essayist J. F. Martel offers an interesting thesis at Aeon, as to the origin of humanity — Humans did not invent art. Art invented us: “How art invented humanity,” July 30, 2026 It’s a longish essay (nearly 5000 words) so I can…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (31+ words) mindmatters.ai Teading for entertainment alone will become increasingly rare. I expect we will return to a culture where people who read are mainly looking for new ideas....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (839+ words) Before the printing press, transcribing books was an arduous task, and not many people in society were able to read in the first place. After the press was invented, however, literacy rose substantially, and while reading was still often relegated…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (920+ words) A best-selling book by Concordia University marketing prof Gad Saad is called Suicidal Empathy (2026). The Montreal professor’s book is centered on evolutionary psychology, the idea that evolution can explain human psychology. It’s been a bestseller; one thing that probably helped…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (453+ words) Let Harvard help explain: Sometimes inaccurate information is posted to Wikipedia on purpose, as a hoax. In some well-documented cases, this inaccurate information continues to spread when people take it from Wikipedia and use it in books and articles. “What’s…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (524+ words) In his 2020 Netflix special, 23 Hours to Kill, comedian Jerry Seinfeld described the obsessive attachment many people have to their smartphones as “device dictatorship.” A reflection of this obsession is the panic we feel when we lose track of our phones:…...