Zerebria

Montaigne compared conversation to (more…)

Commercial logic wants everything to be all-white or all-black for storage purposes; but nature works in a different way. We all, biologically, hormonally, are both (more…)

Stephen King’s ‘The Langoliers’ has a very powerful opening scene: a commercial pilot is at the flight deck, making the final arrangements with his assistant before taking off, when his boss comes in to give him some terrible news: (more…)

I don’t usually do this, but the other day I stumbled upon this short and nice educational text about the brain, and it seems strangely adequate for a blog that is called Zerebria. (more…)

I’ve chosen these two films because, different as they are, they share some unique features. Films are usually about bad news, it’s a necessity imposed by their structure, by the narrative arch: (more…)

I think the ‘Show, don’t tell’ hint, usually offered to writers, is also of application when trying to influence other people. (more…)

Great food for thought can be found in Everyone Can Win, by Helena Cornelius and Shoshana Faire. A very interesting issue the book covers is the underlying psychology behind visceral disliking, particularly (more…)

I am a person who has faith in a lot of things, but I don’t think I’ve ever had blind faith. I wonder if such thing as blind faith really exists. I think there’s something really screwed up in the definition of (more…)

So here is the last part of my saga on love. In case you just came in, you can find the previous parts here and here.

Romantic love

In case the previous areas of love were not difficult enough to discuss, not intoxicated enough by rude and disgusting interests of all kind, here comes the couple, the nuclear particle of the mess our world is in. Luckily, I have the classics to come in my support. (more…)

He had always been taught to be arrogant, so he had a very hard time when he had to apologize. (more…)