perception
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On love and history.
Of all my children’s toys, I imagine that the rainbow unicorn appears most unlovable. Its fur is tattered, some patches nearly bare and others clumped or crusty with goo. Its horn is a broken nub flaking bits of plastic. The eyes are scratched. The wings are pocked. The once-bright colors have faded. This unicorn is…
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On human babies and adult octopuses.
For a short time, as infants, we felt the world as octopuses do.
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On cicadas and perception.
Here on the ground, we rarely saw the cicadas who were off living their best cicada lives.
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On perspective and Zoom.
It’s easy for our experience of the world to blind us to others’ realities. Over Zoom, you see less suffering.
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On Tara Westover’s “Educated.”
How can you learn to trust in a world where your beloved family member’s visage might conceal a monster?
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On perception and learning.
We adults can’t fix the world until we learn from children that it’s okay to be wrong.
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On attempts to see the world through other eyes.
Recoloring an image is cool … but is it enough to imagine how other animals view a certain scene?
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