Human Behaviour
Psychology
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Culture
There's a version of astrology a scientist can honestly engage with — not the planetary-influence version, which has been repeatedly falsified, but the human-psychology version, which is the real reason horoscopes work, the real reason birth charts feel uncanny, and the real reason this practice has outlived nearly every empire that ever banned it
Psychology
Psychology suggests stargazing might be better for us than we realize
Psychology
Quote by Carl Sagan: “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let them live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another”
Human Behaviour
Psychology suggests people who still navigate by memory instead of relying on GPS usually aren't being stubborn — they've kept a relationship with the physical world that the rest of us quietly outsourced about fifteen years ago and haven't quite figured out how to replace
Psychology
The clearest sign you're talking to a high-level thinker is that they'll change their mind in front of you mid-conversation — and most people will not do that in public at any cost
Psychology
I'm 38 and I often feel neither fully happy nor fully sad — and I started wondering whether that flatness was something I learned early
Psychology
People who regularly dine alone aren't always running from anyone — sometimes eating alone is the meal that finally stops asking them to perform okayness
Psychology