Archive for June 2009
How language influences thought
Lera Boroditsky, an assistant professor of psychology, neuroscience and symbolic systems at Stanford University, wrote a fascinating paper about her research into how language shapes the way we think.
Food for thought
I read a few interesting articles tonight:
I enjoyed this article about the placebo effect. It’s good to be reminded how much our attitude can affect our health.
Steve Pavlina has a blog about personal development that I look at regularly. He wrote about climate change and I was surprised to learn what an impact the meat industry has on the environment.
And then, I really liked this book review from the New York Times. My favorite quote: “If history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral truth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe — conceivably — the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.”
