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Liked this idea from Ian Leslie - ie that part of the reason stories are so powerful is that they lower our analytical guards.
#story #history #academia #psychology
https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/stories-are-bad-for-your-intelligence
RIP
It takes something special to get the best out of everyone in a conversation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/billy-connolly-parkinson/zmv8gwx
Still the best #documentary I’ve ever seen.
“Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.”
Former Israeli PM Golda Meir
Walked with cheetahs this morning - such beautiful animals. Hats off to Na’an Kuse and all the work they do.
I wonder, sometimes, what Copernicus would think of the age of social media.
What would a man, who fought to prove that Earth was not the centre of the universe, think of the selfie?
#namibia #nature #desert #wisdom
This passage reminded me of the idea that the wisdom of the crowd is conversation, while the wisdom of the desert is silence
Question for #medicine or #history experts:
If medieval (and previous) physicians looked first for a person’s elemental make-up before diagnosis, how much was that an assessment of character (phlegmatic, sanguine etc) and how much “medical”? A follow-up question being, if it was part character assessment, when if at all did the mind-body split enter medicine?
