"Perception is far more dependent on prior knowledge – painstakingly created internal models of the world – than we usually take it to be".
The Big Idea: how do our brains know what’s real? By Adam Zeman www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
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"Perception is far more dependent on prior knowledge – painstakingly created internal models of the world – than we usually take it to be".
The Big Idea: how do our brains know what’s real? By Adam Zeman www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
March 18th - Racism and antisemitism in postcolonial and Marxist social theory
Leo Roepert is a sociologist and works as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Socioeconomics at the University of Hamburg. bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/racism...
Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Ja, de er også bra!
Jeg mente selvsagt 8. mars 😉
Ha ha, ja, jeg mente 8. mars
Antifascistisk kor på Egertoget 1. mai. Vi sang for toget som gikk forbi. Takk til alle oss, og til alle som viste at de satte pris på sangen - og til fotografen, Anne-Lise Zwaig! ❤️✊
a bullsh*t motivational podcast in 1895
by Karolina Żebrowska
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH5O...
A Friend of Dorothy - full Oscar nominated short film starring Miriam Margolyes and Stephen Fry
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMqU...
The Epstein Joke That Left Hollywood Speechless | Ricky Gervais at the 2020 Golden Globes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDY_...
"They represent something more profound: grassroots responses to the hollowing out of public care, and collective refusals to accept the intensified burdens placed on women within the private sphere." jacobin.com/2026/02/moth...
"“A PRIVATE LIFE” is a murder mystery only on its surface; at its heart, it’s an exploration of a lonely woman’s extremely active mind, and an unexpectedly moving story of becoming more present in one’s real life, rather than one’s imaginary one."
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
"Kvinnen og Tiden startet en demokratiskole etter svensk modell og flyttet den til Fogelstad. Blant foreleserne var Inger Hagerup og Nic Waal."
Bjørgulv Braanen skriver om Kirsten Hansteen i dagens Klassekampen - hun var min morfars - Thorvald Landmark Moes - søster. (En annen søster var Gerda Evang.) Interessant lesning!
"Kirsten Hansteen var Norges første kvinnelige statsråd, men ble som kommunist offer for den kalde krigen. Da ble en svensk, feministisk godseier redningen." klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...
Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
By William Shakespeare
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45108/...
"Du kan ikke få både i pose og sekk" er et uttrykk.
Jeg er enig i at det er dårlig, og tenkte det skyldes en dårlig oversettelse. Når jeg googler det, ser jeg at det finnes på dansk: www.udvalgte-ordsprog.dk/man-kan-ikke...
"Talking helps, but it isn’t enough. We need to focus on prevention. This means identifying the factors that contribute to mental illness and tackling them. A good place to start is social psychiatry."
By Matthew Smith, The Conversation: theconversation.com/social-psych...
Wed. Feb. 18th at 1-2.30 pm UK time - THE POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: NIC WAAL AND THE EDITH JACOBSON CASE. By Lene Auestad @lawritingsnet.bsky.social Tavistock Institute of Human Relations @tavinstitute.org Chair: Dr. Mannie Sher
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Wed. Feb. 18th at 1-2.30 pm UK time - THE POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: NIC WAAL AND THE EDITH JACOBSON CASE. By Lene Auestad @lawritingsnet.bsky.social Tavistock Institute of Human Relations @tavinstitute.org Chair: Dr. Mannie Sher
tavinstitute.org/whats-on/lun...
A Message From A Male Survivor of Epstein Island
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7L4...
"As our illusions about Norway’s global reputation are shattered, the fabric of that social contract seems threatened. (...) The Epstein files (...) are any far-right conspiracist’s dream." Sindre Bangstad in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
MORSDAG: Jeg ble minnet på at det er morsdag, og jeg er glad for at jeg hadde en så klok og forståelsesfull mor, her avbildet med hennes mor. T.v. Marie "Maisen" Cappelen Nicolaisen, gift Moe (1902-1987). T.h. Anne-Marie f. Moe, gift Auestad (1931-2002).
"Once unthinkable: At 103, Holocaust survivor Ruth Gruenthal has reclaimed the German citizenship the Nazi regime stripped from her... An increasing number of Jewish Americans with family histories shaped by the Holocaust are applying to restore German citizenship"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEkE...
February 18th: THE POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: NIC WAAL AND THE EDITH JACOBSON CASE
I am very pleased to have been invited by The
@tavinstitute.org to give this talk in their lunchtime seminar series.
Free - registration required. tavinstitute.org/whats-on/lun...
February 18th: THE POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: NIC WAAL AND THE EDITH JACOBSON CASE
I am very pleased to have been invited by The
@tavinstitute.org to give this talk in their lunchtime seminar series.
Free - registration required. tavinstitute.org/whats-on/lun...
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day; I will share my painting by the artist Elin Furru. Esther, born in Rotterdam 1933, died in Sobibor 1943. Never again (is now). We need to fight fascism in our present.
"Pools of blood, hundreds of gunshots’: I am a surgeon in Iran - this is the horror I’ve witnessed in the crackdown"
By Anonymous
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...