29 August 2008

Think positively about this

Livescience takes up the question of Positive Thinking. Does it really work? Can people really combat serious illness with the power of happy thoughts?
Errr, we don’t know. Yes. No. Depends on the situation. The science is complex and the jury is out.
That won’t stop, of course, the big industry of people with suspicious hair making [...]

29 August 2008

Fear

I spent a portion of the day — especially the nicely rainy evening in what has been a very rainy week for Tucson — retroblogging, which some of you may know as “writing in a journal.”
I am, I should note, a major moleskine geek. If they could get the internet on a moleskine, I’d die [...]