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Is our society’s current obsession with “individualism”, and defining...
I don’t know if defence is quite the right word. I would go with coping mechanism. But in essence, I think you’re onto something. The Dunbar number is the notion that the human brain, when compared to...
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Is it possible to cook a work of Art?
As discussed previously, for me art is more of a way at looking something than a something itself. Conventionally cookery is more craft than art, so I don’t know if cooking as standard counts so much....
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Please decribe getting up in the morning in as accurate and honest manner...
It’s tricky. I’ve been in the process for the last twenty minutes or so, but still the details have faded. It starts with a dream that I can barely remember (something about work, timetables and...
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Why are there so many ‘knock knock’ jokes?
Jokes are funny things. Fnarr. A lot of it is about expectation, and particularly things not matching expectations. It’s the same in music. On some level you know what’s coming next, so when it...
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Finland’s third biggest party True Finns wants to significantly make cuts in...
It’s common during economic downturns for this sort of attitude to rise, it’s happening here in the UK (BNP, EDL etc), we can see it in America (Tea Party), and in Finland, it’s led to a far right...
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In a battle between bees and spiders for world domination, which would win...
Bees are already in decline. It actually leads me to wonder whether a diet with or without honey is ethically responsible. Bees occupy an important part of the ecosystem, mainly for their actions as...
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That will is bound up with fear, and sovereignty is never shaped from above,...
That Foucault loves his long sentences. (Loved. I just checked wikipedia to check he was dead. He died twenty days after I was born. Coincidence?) I had to read the surrounding sentences to parse the...
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What does purple taste like?
Mostly fruits. Often tart ones. But it’s not universal. The colour doesn’t give the flavour. But this is going to be a very short text if I treat it like that, so I guess we’ve got to go into the...
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What is the most selfless thing that someone can do?
I’m not certain where I stand on the whole ‘no such thing as altruism’ debate. Actually, I’m fairly sure. I find it annoying but probably largely true. But that largely thing is actually very...
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Do good things always have to come to an end?
It’s not just good things, you know. It’s everything. It’s okay, that’s the way the world works, and if it didn’t, then there’d be too much of everything everywhere for anything to really be. Endings...
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