It seems some people take to the cookie jar to sidetrack unpleasant thoughts of death. I thought when I took to the cookie jar it made for an excuse to defer a mundane task of some sort. To better understand the link between thoughts of mortality and the urge to consume, Naomi Mandel at Arizona State University, Tempe, and Dirk Smeesters at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, asked 746 ... Read full entry
Comfort food staves off thoughts of… death
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 30 May, 2008 to the comment subset
How to live forever
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 9 January, 2008 to the comment subset
How to live forever. Soon there may only be but one certainty in life, taxes. The problem is though there would be no end to them as a result. "IN THE long run," as John Maynard Keynes observed, "we are all dead." True. But can the short run be elongated in a way that makes the long run longer? And if so, how, and at what cost? People have dreamt of ... Read full entry
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