Hamsters minus the Hamster Essence

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/11/27/consumer-zhu-zhu-pets-hamster.html
The next great Christmas toy for children (and the inner child) is the Zhu Zhu Pets mechanical hamster. This little guy drives cars, runs around in hamster wheels, and shits everywhere like a real hamster. Back up, it doesn’t actually shit everywhere like a real hamster and you don’t have to place it in a [...]

Mythologizing Death in Atheism

Within a span of a few days (a couple years ago) I read the His Dark Materials Trilogy (the first book of which was made into a movie called The Golden Compass) and watched the movie The Fountain starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz.
These two pieces of media simultaneously argued, in my view, that death in [...]

Depressive Realism and the Objet Petit a

Depressive realism is a theory which states that people who are depressed are able to more accurately gauge their reputation, locus of control, abilities, and the way the world actually is. It’s argued that depressed people are able to see without the rose-colored glasses that non-depressed people wear. On initial reflection I was inclined to [...]