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Don’t put it in your mouth?
by westwood It’s an unfortunate reality of our world that everyone has an agenda. No matter what you think you are getting for free, something… or someone… is being sold. That’s where the No Free Lunch movement comes in. What is that, you ask? It is a very well-intentioned movement in medicine to stop the [...]
Filed under: critical thinking, medical ethics | 18 Comments
Tags: big pharma, bribes, critical thinking, drug companies, medical ethics, no free lunch, philosophy, selling
The new switcheroo
by westwood Sorry for the interruption to our regularly scheduled event, but today’s topic is Multitasking. Chances are, if you are internet-savvy, you think you are pretty darn good at multitasking. If you’re a woman, you are by default better at it than men. You pride yourself on the fact that since you began to [...]
Filed under: critical thinking, psychology | 13 Comments
Tags: conscious, drumming, email, glee, job force, juggling, men, modern society, multitasking, muscle memory, psychology, resume, subconscious, task-switching, technology, texting, women
Keep Plato out of your bedroom
by westwood. Do you remember a little post discussing why Jurgen Habermas might be useful in your bedroom? That was waaaay back, when gapingwhole was a twinkling little babe just past its inception (best movie of the year. Or perhaps The Kids Are All Right. Or 500 Days of Summer. Was that even this year? [...]
Filed under: critical thinking, hypocrisy, understanding | 5 Comments
Tags: conflict, critical thinking, debate, dialectic, habermas, hypocrisy, irrational, irrationality, love, movies, plato, questions, rational, rationality, reason, socrates, understanding
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