by david allan van nostrand | Apr 25, 2022 | Connections, Items in the News
Summer camps have long used handicrafts to keep kids busy when they’re stuck indoors on rainy days. For many years a popular camp craft activity has been to make braided neckerchief slides, bracelets, and lanyards for whistles and pocket knives from colorful...
by david allan van nostrand | Apr 18, 2022 | Human Behavior, Items in the News, Point of view
To be on cloud nine is to be in a state of intense well-being. The most common explanation for the origin of the term tells us that the United States Weather Bureau classifies nine levels of clouds. The clouds on Level Nine are the ones we know as the fluffy white...
by david allan van nostrand | Apr 11, 2022 | Human Behavior, Misinformation traps, Psychology
Devotees of rump reading purport to find deeper meaning in the lines, crevices, dimples, warts, and moles of people’s buttocks. Rump reading was big in ancient Babylon, where seekers of rectal wisdom (one wonders who they were) covered their hindquarters with liquid...
by david allan van nostrand | Apr 4, 2022 | Items in the News, Point of view, Psychology
Right now, even as you read this, you are missing the vast majority of what is happening around you. You are missing the events unfolding in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you. You are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that...
