by lepton | Jul 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
According to a Pew survey millennials are not trusting: Millennials are less trusting of others than older Americans are. Asked a long-standing social science survey question, “Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can’t be too...
by lepton | Jun 22, 2017 | Faith, Power Dynamic
I tend to regularly rail against western religion here but I will give it credit where it is due. It has a failure management mechanism that isn’t half bad. Basically modern psychology tells people to double down on their pride after they fail....
by lepton | Jun 14, 2017 | Matters of the Heart
Insightful post on disability: But most people with disabilities will not be remembered by history. They are usually living challenging lives with little to show for it: Unemployment rates are disturbingly high, health care costs are often debilitating, and the...
by lepton | Jun 8, 2017 | Poetry
For a poetry Facebook I experimented with combining programming code with poetry, in this case JavaScript, JQuery, and (for grabbing the Twitter and Yahoo feeds) some server side code. I started out with a poem that does random lines and progressed to one that...
by lepton | May 24, 2017 | Mental Illness
Piece on grunge and the death of Chris Cornell: You might think grunge is about anger, but that’s not completely true. Yes, it can sound that way, but it’s really about depression and cynicism. Those two go hand-in-hand, along with their nasty little sister, anxiety....
