I like the occasions when I wake up and soon after remember something significant that happened the day before but had not yet been cataloged in long-term memory. It feels that through remembering, the memory moves from the short-term to the long-term compartment.
It’s a little frustrating that mirrors confuse me. I think that the perceived distance between you and your reflection is twice the actual distance between you and the glass, but I’m not sure.
When two people meet for the first time, the stage is set for a common phenomena where what is initially said by person A to person B has a larger impact on how person B perceives person A than what person A says subsequently, and vice-versa. With few exceptions, as time passes, what person A…
There ought to be a word to describe the situation where someone is so taken by a current event, partially because their name is involved, that it influences their career choice. For example, a young girl in elementary school named Valerie happens to read about the ruckus surrounding Valerie Plame and, because it concerns a…
While undressing a couple nights ago, I removed a long sleeve shirt which ignited a firestorm of static electricity bursting atoms that I could hear crackle and pop. Do you know what I mean? Where you don’t get shocked but you can hear and sort of feel the electrons bursting out of their shells and…
One of the things I find remarkable is that after you’ve been sick and are healthy again, you feel exactly the way you did before getting sick. All the cellular changes that occur to make you feel congested and nauseous resolve to their normal state as if nothing happened. How do our cells remember what…
How do we make warm water? We combine hot and cold. This happens in the faucet. It happens also in the shower head. I zoom in on the scale and wonder if the water molecules themselves are actually changing in temperature or if the sensation of warm water is an illusion brought on by the…
So while in class last Wednesday, the seat in front of me was empty, and this prompted the thought that if I could split my brain in two and have my other half occupying the chair in front, I could get more out of the lecture. I took it further and imagined splitting myself into…
It’s sometimes practical to make a distinction between something natural and something man-made, but such a distinction is also a bit ludicrous. Most people could come to a consensus that humans are natural, and from there it would only take one person to put forth the argument that since we are natural, everything we do/make…
Once, while tripping, I was trapped for a short time in a thought trail about sound. I reasoned that every sound had a physical explanation. So that, for example, the sound heard when busting a wooden pencil apart resulted from the breaking of bonds/particles that made up the wood and lead. It was then that…