Knowing Too Much: The Epistemics of Intimacy
December 29, 2022 John A. Teske After a long intimacy with someone, one has learned a lot, both about oneself and about another. Part of...
Gravity & Flight
21 July 2022 Talk about a pregnant moment, gravid with significance. Two years ago, on this day in the early months of a worldwide...
Giving Up the Ghost: The Gift of Mortality
15 May 2021 “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” -- Mae West I am 67 years old, the same age my father died,...
Living on Tulsa Time II: From Groves of Academe to Open Plain
A nearby colleague, Phil Cary of Eastern University, in a recruitment video for his institution, said something powerful about a liberal...
Square Ball in a Round Hole
To distract my toddler one morning when my wife was trying to get him into the car, I picked up the cardboard container from some wine...
How Do You Think You Are?
We all take as a given, like fish in water, a cultural and historical preoccupation with the “self” as something to nurture, protect,...
Working It Out
“So… what do you do?” When we ask this question, we are often asking what someone “does for a living,” but it means so much more than...
What We Do Not Want to Know about Ourselves
""...the dividing line between good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his...
A Deal with the Devil
Consistent with the overall theme of Neuromythology, I am including an interpretation of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The myth can...
Forbidden Knowledge
Parental Advisory: Explicit Content One of the truths about our neurophysiology is habituation, feeling less and less with repetition of...