Tag Archives | cognitive dissonance

Melting ice shelfs

14 April 2009 · Thinking · Comments { 1 }

Do you ever have that experience where something you’ve known for a long time suddenly hits you as it’s never hit you before? That happened to me this weekend. Here’s what set it off. Every few days another huge chunk of ice seems to break off from Antarctica. Last week, for example, the Wilkins Ice [...]

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Sleepless

25 July 2008 · On the Holloway Road · Comments { 3 }

It’s past four in the morning and I can’t sleep. Haven’t slept all night. I tried reading for a while, but that didn’t work – I couldn’t focus for more than a few seconds at a time. All that I have been able to do is lie in bed for five hours with my eyes [...]

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