Dragon’s aren’t wholly absent from Mongolian mythology and culture, so far as I can tell, but they’re certainly not as prevalent compared to other East Asian countries… Mongolia’s calendar is based on the Tibetan calendar, which includes a Year of the Dragon afterall, so there are some stories to unearth.
Read MoreIf fishing and wheeler dealing wasn’t impressive enough, crows are also masters at solving puzzles…
Read MoreSo, you already know that crows and ravens have a bad rep. When they’re not signalling something ominous in Hollywood films (yawn) they’re hanging out with witches or plucking out the eyes of the dead….
Read MoreDon’t judge a bird by its literary references: that’s the moral of this story. Curious? Good. It’s a sign of intelligence…
Read MoreOpinions make us. Our beliefs, inextricably shaped by those we spend time with, define who we believe we are. They give us meaning, so it’s no wonder we’re so precious about them…
Read MoreYour TL;DR alert is that being grateful makes you happier. :heart_eyes:
Read MoreAre we stuck with the way we are? Can we ever get to the greener grass where happiness lives? How much choice is there when it comes to inner joy? I did some amateur reading, and the below is what I found.
Read MoreSome time ago, a friend assured me that blowing on hot food didn’t actually cool it down, in fact, the act of blowing on food was more about preparing one’s mouth for taking in something that might burn. I disagreed, and it and it bothered me enough to go researching and find out for sure. I’ve done the (not-so) hard yards. Here’s the answer.
Read MoreFrom The Archives (~2015)
Preamble: The intention of the ‘Interesting Reads’ posts is to share discoveries. They might not always be hot off the press, but old news isn’t necessarily irrelevant or uninteresting. Being first to share isn’t important to me; sharing is. This? This one's about tree sounds, seawater, and haunting hymns.
Read MoreFrom The Archives (~2015)
You’ll recognise this problem: it’s almost impossible not to follow the links. Some link traps can be fantastic. It’s how I find out some incredible curiosities and, since I discover batches of them per week, I decided I would share a few of the biggies in a digest of some kind. You can find them all yourself, organically, or you can see where my brain’s been this week in a sort of mind map game of hide and seek-what-I’ve-been-looking-at. Wow. What a preamble.
Read MoreI hadn't been nominated for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. And this wasn't a call out for nominations; I wasn't lamenting that I hadn’t been chosen, nor would I necessarily have turned my nose up had I been, but I was fascinated by the myriad of opinions—everyone had some kind of stance— and wanted to understand the thing. This was my exploration, back when it was a phenomenon.
Read MoreAs I saw various friends share the recent Guardian article, transcribing Benjamin Bratton’s TEDx talk criticising TED, I started to feel uneasy. I’d briefly read the article, planned to watch the speech, and my initial feelings were that I disagreed. But the overtures being shared were that of concurrence. A sort of borrowed eureka, that this one 11 minute speech had won their approval, and why hadn’t they looked at it like that before? Sentiments such as, “I love TED, but this guy has a point” (I paraphrase) were declared. Here's where I got with that.
Read More