Culture & Religion — May 20, 2010

Flashback

New York psychotherapist Charley Wininger recalls that "hippidom (at its best) was an alternative to this dillusional pathology of separation that has been forced upon us."

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New York psychotherapist Charley Wininger recalls that “hippidom (at its best) was an alternative to this delusional pathology of separation that has been forced upon us…It’s the kind of illusion that posits that you can pollute your world way over there, or I can hate you over here, and we won’t effect each other.”

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Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature's most unreliable narrators.

a group of five matches on a pink background.

The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it's a JWST image or any other observatory.

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