😊 Our six-year-old handed us a note. His teacher had called us in for an emergency meeting. Teacher: “I asked him to draw his family and he drew this. Would vou mind explaining?” “Not at all”, my wife said. “Family vacation. Snorkelling off the Bahamas.”
Anita Leirfall
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- You weren't born just to be 'useful,’ Irish president tells students Higgins believes that philosophy and history should be a basic requirement forming a core education.
- Already since childhood I’ve dreamt of a personal library. And the dream came true. (A photo of just a part of the library.) 📚📚❤️📚📚Does the idea of a personal library still exist?
- Study: Memories of music cannot be lost to Alzheimer's and dementia The part of your brain responsible for ASMR catalogs music, and appears to be a stronghold against Alzheimer's and dementia
- The Japanese call this practice tsundoku, and it may provide lasting benefits Surrounding ourselves with unread books enriches our lives as they remind us of all we don't know. The Japanese call this practice tsundoku, and it may provide lasting benefits.
- Western philosophy has tried to use pure reason to know reality. But Heidegger showed that this entire philos tradition was doomed, due to its mistaken assumption that being a feature of reality is to be available to rational thought. | By Robert Pippin
- “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” A glimpse of today’s sight from the working desk in my private library. 📚
- In a new theory of embodied consciousness, neuroscientists Antonio Damasio & Hanna Damasio propose that feelings are the source of consciousness. W/o them, consciousness is impossible–w/radical implications for the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness & ... AI
- Replying to @anitaleirfallStory found via the forum “Artistic Freedom”.
- RIP Helen De Cruz (1978-2025) 💔 Helen De Cruz — Professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, has died.
- "University professors have to spend increasing proportions of their days performing tasks which exist only to make overpaid academic managers feel good about themselves." ― David Graeber (1961-2020)
- Neuroscience needs a new paradigm: the brain is not a machine | By Nicole Rust “The brain is a dynamic complex system—like the weather or a megacity—whose parts interact via feedback loops that are impossible to study in isolation from each other.”







