A recent Axios Technology alert (see below) was no surprise (to me) because trust between humans is essential is nearly every issue, like in business, family, friendship, relationship, school, sport, and at work. Those issues are - ultimately - about competition versus cooperation. Human trust is about known knowns (eg, history, knowledge), known unknowns (ie,...
Quite possibly, the opinion in Le Monde (see below) by French economist Thomas Piketty is wishful thinking. Nevertheless, I agree with its title: Rethinking the world without the US. In my view, Thomas Piketty uses (his) facts to promote his ideology in writing. In my view, the 2025 situation in USA has accelerated a trend that was visible decades ago: America is no...
Late April 2019, I published my blog Crime novels and the 7 Belief systems. I’m still quite proud of its accompanying diagram. Some novel writers were surprised by that diagram because my perspective was brand new to them. This blog is about fantasy novels, which is probably a (very) misleading term because nothing in those books in about unknown unknowns (my 2016...
Intro LO: After digesting this recent Scientific American article, the conclusion is simple: it’s (nearly) impossible that life on planet Earth is a singular event within the Universe. There must be other life-forms throughout the Universe. Hence, science-fiction is (much) more like science - and technology - than like fiction. The (alleged) sightings of...
Recently, several articles mentioned a remarkable scientific find: 'Well-man' thrown from castle identified from 800-year-old Norse saga. I suppose that legends and myths have little meaning to (ancient) history in the eyes of (very) many people. The quote below shows its importance: “ "This is the first time that a person described in these historical texts has...
Recently, the Psychological Bulletin published a “meta-analytic review of the association between mental effort and negative affect”. That review was entitled as “The unpleasantness of thinking”. I agree that “critical thinking is not just hard work but also mentally draining”. I disagree that it’s “often unpleasant”. Source: The Debrief, covering the recent...
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