by erikalee | Aug 8, 2018 | Blog
I’ve written previously about the phenomenon of the Availability Heuristic, which is a mental short cut that we human beings (and I assume quite probably, many other species of animal) use to pull the most recent examples from our knowledge in order to feel that we...
by erikalee | Aug 4, 2018 | Blog
My mother used to fish down at the creek of a Sunday afternoon, stolen moments with a loved one, not a hobby particularly belonging to either, but they passed precious time together laughing and flirting amid the dappled sunlight and slapping tails. She bent the hook...
by erikalee | Jul 25, 2018 | Blog
This table, around which we sit, holds up our vulnerability while we may rest our hands, our brains, our imaginations (both subjective and objective) in this peaceful gathering of unified differences. I’m pleased by the comfort found where there could be so much...
by erikalee | Jul 22, 2018 | Blog
What do you know for certain? What do you remember? What occurs to your memory as you think or utter a proposition? How cognitively assured are you of your present perceptions? What is actually happening in the world around us, near us, far from us, on the other...
by erikalee | Jul 20, 2018 | Blog
Scrolling through Twitter recently, with the usual catatonic focus social media tends the human cognition toward, my attention was caught by a headline from The Dodo (thedodo.com, @dodo) stating that baby river otters are being stolen from their families to be sold...
by erikalee | Jul 17, 2018 | Blog
You’d be surprised, what with the nearing 8 billion human beings that currently inhabit this tiny world, by the lack of variability in our faces. There really are such a small number of possibilities, which might not actually be so surprising when we consider the...
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