Is myth more comforting than reality?

 

by Quinn O'Neill

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The Backfire Effect



The Misconception: When your beliefs are challenged with facts, you alter your opinions and incorporate the new information into your thinking.



The Truth: When your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, your beliefs get stronger.



Wired, The New York Times, Backyard Poultry Magazine – they all do it. Sometimes, they screw up and get the facts wrong. In ink or in… Continue

Running to catch the sun

We are all heading for the grave in an indifferent universe. How do we cope with such existential concerns?





So you run and you run to catch up

with the sun but it's sinking,

Racing around to come up behind you

again.

The sun is the same in a relative way,

but you're older,

Shorter of breath, and one day closer

to…

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