Cookies are a strange disease on the Internet, infecting your privacy, weakening your identity, and providing data about you to the yucky cookie company that is manipulating your sense and sensibilities, boxing you into a limited data stream of content and advertisements, confounding your mind's ability to expand.
While it flatters me to know that some of my work is being taught in highschools and colleges, and that I have done my share in confounding the mind of students near and far, it never fails to astound me what some of these young people would do to avoid thinking.
Such ontological questions confound the mind, but it is possible to solve them using diagrams.
In recent months, in which real life has consistently confounded the mind, I have often found myself thinking, with anticipation and something like wonder, about "Invisibilia," the NPR podcast whose third season begins today.
Boudjedra's next novel, L'Insolation (1972; "Sunstroke"), evoked experimental states of mind, confounding dream with reality.
And if all that isn't confounding enough, wrap your mind around one last study that shows widespread use of medical marijuana actually produces a major improvement in public safety.
The world is filled with great mysteries that tease and confound the human mind: Stonehenge, Area 51, the United States tax code.
If the developers make a third game, I hope they work as hard to engage players in the story as they do to confound them with mind teasers.
Anderson has confounded experienced legal minds by consistently refusing to testify against Bonds.
More than 200 Ph.D. scientists are already at work at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, many of them concentrating on the question of nurture vs. nature — environment or genetic predisposition — that has confounded the best minds of science since the days of Crick and Salk.
