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  1. Beach Snobs

    I had an interesting conversation with a friend I met in Japan.  She was Greek but born in America, currently living in Greece.  She was describing the beautiful landscape of  Greece, painting a picturesque paradise of the Greek islands and how their beaches are among the most beautiful in the world.  With this breathtaking description,…

  2. Give Yourself A Chance

    Back in Grade 8, we had an assignment to recreate the trial of Louis Riel.  I remember clearly that I wanted to be the judge because I thought I would be good at it thinking I was honest, logical and fair.  But it turned out I was assigned as a lawyer instead.  Now a lawyer…

  3. Humanity’s fate?

    “The fundamental problem is that an evolved mind must pay attention to indirect cues of biological fitness, rather than tracking fitness itself. This was a key insight of evolutionary psychology in the early 1990s; although evolution favors brains that tend to maximize fitness (as measured by numbers of great-grandkids), no brain has capacity enough to…