Why Do Some People Think We Have No Free Will?
Alright, let’s dive into one of those deep, “late-night chat over a couple of beers” kind of topics: free will. You know, the whole “are we really in control of our actions, or is everything predestined?” kind of thing.
It’s the kind of question that can make your brain feel like it’s doing backflips, but it’s something a lot of people have thought about, and there’s no shortage of opinions on the matter.
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How Do Lie Detectors Work?
According to the American Psychological Association, “There is no evidence that any pattern of physiological reactions is unique to deception. An honest person may be nervous when answering truthfully and a dishonest person may be non-anxious.”
Polygraphs don’t actually detect anything meaningful except that the person is under stress – and simply being given a polygraph is sufficient to trigger the stress.
Even the creator of the machines stated that they were bunk. They’re purely a prop for interrogators.
Taking Responsibility for Your Life: Finding Peace and Meaning in the Choices You’ve Made
Life doesn’t always turn out the way we imagine. Maybe you had a picture-perfect vision of your future—a timeline where everything fell into place exactly as you hoped. But here you are, living a life that might look very different from what you once planned. It’s easy to feel disappointed, even cheated by the twists and turns that have brought you to this point. But what if I told you that the key to finding peace and fulfillment isn’t in what might have been, but in fully embracing the life you’ve chosen?
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The defining images of the 2024 Paris Olympics – SB Nation
4 tips for dealing with cynics, apathetics, and naysayers at work – Fast Co
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The most comfortable and optimal way to use your laptop while sitting on the couch or bed – Amazon
The surprising truth about loneliness in America – VOX
This Is the Most Detailed Map of Brain Connections Ever Made – Wired
Psychologist shares 15-second trick to make kids of any age less rude and more cooperative – Upworthy
Who’s the Greatest Actor in Movie History? A Statistical Analysis – Stat Significant
Medicare negotiated drug prices for the first time. Here’s what it got – NPR
10 Gruesome Realities from the Great Chinese Famine – Listverse
Whatever Happened to Actress Mara Hobel From ‘Mommie Dearest’?
You probably don’t remember Mara Hobel, but you definitely remember the wire hangers. Hobel was the unfortunate child actor who got hurled into cinematic infamy in 1981 when she played the young Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest, a film that’s since become the gold standard for unintentionally campy biopics.
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Lets Take a Stroll Through The Art Museum
Renato Bertelli – Continuous profile of Mussolini (1933)
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Artwork of the Day
Vincent Van Gogh, Prisoners Exercising (1890)
Vincent van Gogh’s story is one of intense beauty and unbearable pain, all wrapped in a two-year period of manic creation and profound despair. By the time he painted Prisoners Exercising in 1890, van Gogh was a man haunted by the madness that defined his last years. It was as though his mind, brilliant and tortured, was constantly at war with itself—a battle that played out on the canvas in bold, frantic strokes of color.
This particular painting, often overshadowed by his more famous works, captures something raw and primal about van Gogh’s experience of life. The prisoners march in a circle, heads down, as if trapped in an endless cycle. It’s a scene of despair, of entrapment—an echo of van Gogh’s own struggle with his mental health. In those last years, he was locked in a different kind of prison, one of his own mind, where the walls closed in tighter with each passing day.
Why Time Seems to Whizz By As You Get Older — And How to Slow It Down
We’ve all heard the age-old adage, “Time flies when you’re having fun.” But as we age, it often feels like time is flying by, even when we’re not particularly having fun. Days turn into weeks, weeks into months, and before we know it, another year has passed. Why does this phenomenon occur, and more importantly, how can we slow down the relentless march of time?
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