This past summer North America has witnessed some of the worst wildfires on record. In California alone, 1,485,353 acres have gone up in flames. For the longest time, the average person didn’t really give forest fires much attention. Unless one is about to burn through your hometown, we sort of just acknowledged it and moved on. But […]
Have you ever seen that video experiment where people are passing around a basketball? It’s a simple yet effective way to test the power of selective attention. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can do so over here: [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo[/embedyt] The experiment itself is rather simple. There are 3 players in white and 3 […]
If you were to be dropped in the middle of nowhere with nothing except a roughly sketched out map of the area, would you take the map and try to make the most of it, or would you go without? Chances are high that you would at very least take the map with you. It’s […]
A couple months back while I was living in Peru I had my passport stolen. It was one of those regretfully stupid moments where I let my guard down and naively forgot I was out in the public place. Funny enough just a few days before it happened I had been wondering what the recovery […]
I don’t like pain. Both physical and mental. It sucks to sprain an ankle, to lose a game, to go through a breakup, or to experience the death of someone close to you. And as much as we want to avoid these forms of pain, they are inevitable. Real suffering cuts through all the crap. […]