Scary Fun – Chemistry and Romance Novels Take Two
Piggy-backing off my previous post, I’d like to postulate that reading romance novels is like falling in love, but that […]
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The Chemistry of Romantic Love and the Romance Novelist
Anthropologist Helen Fischer argues that romantic love is actually hard-wired into the human body. After studying individuals who described themselves
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Nominative Determinism and Fictional Characters
Originally coined in 1994 in New Scientist magazine, the term “nominative determinism” is basically the idea that a person’s name
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Thoughts on Time Travel
Time Travel holds a special place in my heart. It’s perilously close to being something that I just don’t believe in
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Opening the Door: The Threshold in Myth and Modern Day
Photo by FlutterSpeed In the early days, humans faced the world’s uncertainties with dread. The unknown wilderness was frightening. Unmapped
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Our Hands Have A Lot To Say About Us
Our hands have a lot to say about us. They are created while we’re still in the womb; the fingers
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The Persistant Kernel of an Idea
While on a recent trip to Boston, I found myself frantically editing the draft of a short story. The anthology’s
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Bird Sculpture
I saw this wonderful bird sculpture at the Boston Museum of Science. I love the flowing paper birds on top
Can cute kitten videos help your productivity? According to science they can!
A study that was published in PLoS ONE last year looked at how the human mind is affected by looking
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Transformation in The Night Market
I’m editing on my novella “The Night Market” and I have a scene where the main character is asked if
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