This is not a story about the evils of sweets— in this story sweets is an innocent pawn… Robert Ader is a psychologist who stumbled upon an amazing discovery in the 1970s while studying taste aversion along with Nicholas Cohen. They wanted to see if by making rats nauseous every time they were fed something… Continue reading Suppressing Immune Systems With Sweets
Category: Positive Thinking
The Job of Clever People
“The job of clever people is to ask difficult questions. The job of very clever people is to ask deceptively simple ones.” —The Economist
Are You Motivated More by Love, Fear, or Hatred?
I ran into a loose shower knob recently, and I see how it is like me. Properly functioning shower knobs are easily turned off… just keep turning until it stops. This loose knob did not work that way; I could easily turn it past the off position and it would drip. In order to turn… Continue reading Are You Motivated More by Love, Fear, or Hatred?
Defense Spending
We see other countries spending more on defense so we spend more on defense. Other countries see us spending more on defense so they spend more on defense. When karma is spoken of as a wheel and the only way to stop it is to get off the wheel, this example seems apt. It’s also a good… Continue reading Defense Spending
Edison on Programming Your Sleep
Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious. —Thomas Edison
Serenity Prayer
The Serenity Prayer—commonly, though uncertainly attributed to 20th century American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr— makes a stark call to thinking responsibly: God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. There is a… Continue reading Serenity Prayer