We’ve been arguing that "thinkering" is the way many creative people work. Thinkering, you may recall, is the conceptual thinking that goes along with tinkering - making things with your hands. That’s what Einstein, Edison, Faraday and Maxwell did. Steven Chu understands this; Exxon-Mobil doesn’t.
Steven Chu, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in [...]
I have long believed that much of what we cardiologists treat relates to what goes on from the neck up-namely patient emotions. My book, Heartbreak & Heart Disease, which I wrote back in 1996, covers one aspect of the emotional equation.
Stress in the form of suppressed emotions-from heartbreak and overwhelming sadness to hostility and [...]
Each of us maintains a collection of Core Truths about our lives. Our Core Truths are repeating pattern of thought and behavior defined by our various assumptions and expectations, as well as our ideas about the way the world works, collected over time. The Eastern wisdom traditions refer to these as samskaras - attachments that [...]
Her “sister” doesn’t think so.
McCain says she is. She’s said she’s an only child repeatedly in major national interviews. I think she would like to be-especially right now. Her inheritance from father and beer baron, Jim Hensley, would indicate she’s an only child, but for the $10,000 left to her half-sister, Kathleen Hensley Portalski, 65. [...]
“We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.” Mark Twain
The loss experienced when a partner engages in a romantic affair is often described as a loss of resources, such as love, time, attention, sexual energy, and financial resources. The unfaithful person is described as transferring such resources from the spouse to the lover. [...]
