Dear voters: meet Stan Li. His lifelong dream, since his birth last June, has been to hold public office and help Americans build a better, fairer economy, and a more equitable and happy society for humans and pets alike. Unlike some of his dog park opponents, Stan has no beef with cats, and is more…
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18 Things To Do While You Are Under House Arrest Due To COVID-19: An Anthology
What a time to be alive. Have you guys seen the flatten the curve graph? Only twenty-nine times? Well, hopefully you got the message, then! If you are a good person not a psychopath and your employer is good not a psychopath either, you are probably at home right now, grateful that you are still…
How NOT to find a job
Recently, my friend and website collaborator, Patrick P. Calderon, published an essay on how to get a job. But, in this day and age, with so much commodity fetishism around us all, who wants to really get a job, anyway? No, no. I think the true guide we need is how NOT to get a…
We like Westworld: an unpaid ad.
Every four years or so, Patrick Calderon decides he will stop being stubborn and will at last listen to my TV/movie recommendations. Recently, he finally caved and binge-watched all two seasons of the HBO show Westworld. Given how hard it has been to convince Patrick and a few other friends to get into this show,…
Friend Review: Emma Venter
This is a post from the series “Friend Review”. In this series, we review a mutual friend. In this post, we would like to review Emma Venter. Emma Venter (Fig. 1) is a writer, philosopher, and literary scholar, notably known for being the daughter of famous South-African/American psychologist Anre Venter. Emma, intimately known as “Anre’s…
10 Things We Don’t Like (August)
This is the August post of our new series: Things We Don’t Like. In this series, we will discuss things we, in fact, do not like. This is a heavily biased post that will be negatively reviewing things that didn’t quite make the cut for the “I like this” cluster in our heads. Things We…
How to make Brigadeiros – A not-so-amazing cooking lesson
Today, I made brigadeiro. For those of you who don’t know me well, I am not good at cooking. At all. About a year ago, I tried to make beijinhhos — a typical Brazilian dessert that looks like this: This is what I did: Yes, I burned it. To be fair, it wasn’t bad at…
The Prototype Theory of Love and Attraction
This post is about love. This post is about science. This post is also about psychology, and the nonsensical (but extremely fun) theories you can come up in the field. For the next minutes, allow me to guide you through a psychological theory I have been working on, and one that I wish to put…
Understanding the psychoanalytic theory of dreams
This is the first post of our Academic Dialogues series, to be continued on a weekly basis. In this series, we attempt to revisit some of our favourite (and typically obscure) topics learned in previous classes. This post is about dream interpretation and psychoanalytic theory. If you know nothing about these topics and would like to be…
“My Life”: Stills from an imaginary Netflix series
I seem to take some weird pictures with my phone, a lot of which seem almost cinematic — if my life was interesting enough to have movie (or better, a Netflix series) made out of it. So anyway, if indeed my life was made into a series, these are some of the still shots you would find in this week’s…
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