A conspiracy of young ravens

Search This Blog

Examiner article: Staying green after Earth Day

April 24, 2016

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

http://www.examiner.com/article/staying-green-after-earth-day

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Comments

Scenes from a Pandemic Volume 9 – Exhaustion and executive functioning

"Tired Cairns Koala-1=" by Sheba_Also 17,000,000 + views is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 I have been feeling exhausted by the pandemic, and I suspect that I am not alone in this. It’s an odd kind of exhaustion, too, and it took some work to even figure out that this is the feeling. It’s starting to make sense, and though I don’t know what the solution is, the first step is always to identify the problem. According to new research by Xie, Campbell, and Zhang (2020), coping with the demands of protective measures during the pandemic creates demands on working memory. Let’s start with a definition of working memory, then move to an example, and connect all of it to this latent, pervasive, creeping feeling of exhaustion. Working memory , and we will focus on auditory rather than visual working memory, is short-term memory. You hear or read something (yes, reading is auditory, because you hea...

God speaks through dead car batteries

"Recharging car battery" by D Coetzee is marked with CC0 1.0 If the title of this post sounds crazy, that’s OK with me. I would think the same thing. If you actually know me, though, then you might expect a good story. I have a few of those to tell. I am a psychological scientist and a trained researcher. I will spare you the rest of the details. It’s enough to know that science is one of the ways that I find truth, and that I see no conflict between that approach and my faith, another way that I find truth. I need both, and lately I have been praying for more faith. It’s been hard for me to find the Light in recent days. Maybe you are having the same problem. I know that I can’t bridge the gap to God, that God has to do it, met by the feeblest effort of my will. I also know that God communicates in ways that will make sense to me, in ways that are familiar across my life. It often takes the form of Weird Stuff. I’m a big fan of Weird Stuff, th...

Reposted blog from Midnight Freemasons

This is a repost of a guest contribution that I wrote for the Midnight Freemasons blog, about the symbolism of white gloves when worn by Freemasons:

Powered by Blogger

Examiner article: Staying green after Earth Day

Comments

Post a Comment