Wednesday, September 29, 2010

What's Plato Got To Do With It?

Plato
The origins of the term platonic friendship.

How did Plato, a classical philosopher, get to be associated with nonphysical attachment?

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Via: Slate.com

Tricks Our Minds Play On Us

Photoshopped Tiananmen Square protest
Our brains are incredibly complex organs that allow us to comprehend both our surroundings and abstract concepts. Unfortunately, because our minds have to process so much information at once in order to help us understand things, they can also be easily tricked. Here are a number of ways your brain not be as reliable as you like to think.

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Via: Neatorama