Word: minding
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Death may be, as the cliché has it, the ghost haunting the attic of everyone's mind, but the movies don't usually play it that way. They turn it into melodrama's force majeure, the sneering, swaggering (and generally well-armed) bully it is the hero's duty to resist and ultimately defeat - thoughts of his own inevitable mortality being matters for that last reel that no one ever bothers to shoot. Or think about...
Think Hollywood, and sustainability may not be the first word to cross your mind. Porsches and private jets, Cristal and cocaine, the entertainment industry has been the embodiment of American overconsumption, and its chief sales agent to the rest of the country. Recycling? That was for plot lines. But side-by-side with that image of excess is Hollywood the dyed-blue liberal, the city that gave Al Gore an Oscar before he won that Nobel, where solar panels and Priuses are the new must-have toys, and someone actually thought global warming would make for a good action movie...
...It’s true that psychoanalysis is not part of the mainstream psychology curriculum at Harvard or most other major universities,” said psychology professor Steven Pinker, who teaches the Core course Science B-62, “The Human Mind: Introduction to Mind, Brain, and Behavior...
...word “psychoanalysis” appears in the descriptions of 11 courses, including “The Human Mind,” taught within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. None of those courses are in the psychology department...
...ready to fight no matter what." Eko, the owner of another record store, Anti Music Records, and a former member of one of Jakarta's first punk bands, the Idiots, says he constantly lives by punk's rebellious code. "I am always in a punk state of mind," he declares, as if electronica or hip-hop had never happened. "Punk is better than religion...