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Anne Dalke's picture

how nonsense strengthens the intellect

Thanks, Maiya; very interesting, indeed!

Perhaps even more interesting (esp. to the vegetarians among us) is the follow-up article about Ten Common Food Poisoning Risks, which explains that the top thee riskiest foods are leafy greens (!), eggs, and tuna...

While I'm @ it, here's another article that intersects w/ what we've been reading this week and last, about the brain's looking for patterns: called How Nonsense Strengthens the Intellect, it both shows how the "urge for order satisfies itself...regardless of the quality of the evidence" (which we know), and how also, @  least some of the time, "disorientation begets creative thinking" (which we haven't focused on...@ least not yet!)

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