You might say that it marked a peculiar moment in the evolution of Gawker, which was once described to Denton at a dinner party as the place where losers talk about winners — a venue for punching upward, with hive-mind tendencies of its own.
You might say that it marked a peculiar moment in the evolution of Gawker, which was once described to Denton at a dinner party as the place where losers talk about winners a venue for punching upward, with hive-mind tendencies of its own.
It would be catastrophic if humanity's greatest voyage were brought low by the mind's tendency to wander when left to its own devices.
Bearing in mind their tendency to capitulate at the best of times, the Exiles did well to keep things respectable in his absence for the last 25 minutes.
Mitch Seavey fought off a wave of gloom on the initial descent from Kaltag toward the coast, resisting his addled mind's tendency to mistake tree branches for doors — and assumed the lead at Unalakleet, with two hundred and fifty miles to go.
It might simply mean that we are better treated -- that we are, as individuals and a culture, more cognizant of the mind's tendency to spin out of control.
Bode's law, it seemed, was just a coincidence, an example of the human mind's tendency to find a meaningful pattern where none exists.But the discovery of a new planetary system by a group of astronomers at the European Southern Observatory, led by Christophe Lovis of the University of Geneva, has reawakened interest in the old rule.
Roy Baumeister and EJ Masicampo at Florida State University were interested in an old phenomenon called the Zeigarnik Effect, which is what psychologists call our mind's tendency to get fixated on unfinished tasks and forget those we've completed.
Emotions, like beliefs and desires, can exist either as occurrent events (jealousy of a rival at a party) or as persisting modifications of the mind (a tendency to feel jealousy).
It's just the mind's tendency to remember when things don't go right.
It's actually an ingenious weapon, if you don't mind its tendency to explode for no reason.
