Mind Shadows
11/16/24

Coming Soon: McDonalds on Mt Everest

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Actual Traffic Jam on Everest Those who climb it nowadays have more luck than brains . . . In the evenings they watched ...
11/13/24

The Duel Over von Trautmansdorf's Moustache

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“In Hamburg in 1834, a handsome young army officer named Baron von Trautmansdorf challenged a fellow officer, Baron von Ropp, to ...
7/5/24

The Smartest Person Ever Born?

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 The following essay is about William James Sidis, whom Robert Persig ( Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ) discusses in his novel, ...
7/2/24

You Were Born and It's All Your Fault

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E xistence is a predicate without a basis. The self does not see.  Instead, there is a sense of self.  That is the seen.  It is seen so it c...
6/26/24

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Decapitated Heads Remaining Conscious? Q.  Would a guillotined person die instantly or would the severed head live long enough to feel itsel...

The Man Who Found Einstein's Brain

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Steven Levy said that he had almost a religious experience when he found it in Wichita, Kansas. A journalist for a magazine, New Jersey Mont...
10/31/21

Richard Halliburton Lived Several Lives in One

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 This art-deco image of a pilot, scarf flying over a vintage biplane, evokes for me an entire era, and one man helps capture that era.  A wh...
8/27/21

Pain & Pleasure: The Lobster Reconsidered & David Foster Wallace

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A few years back I read about George, a 140 year-old lobster that did not wind up on somebody's dinner plate. Instead, he was r...
8/9/21

Mercedes de Acosta Met Ramana Maharshi: Here Lies The Heart

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Descended from the legendary Dukes of Alba, daughter in a wealthy Cuban family, Mercedes de Acosta was born in 1893 in New York, ...
4/5/21

The Revolt of Pancho Barnes

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Born to immense wealth, Pancho had an arranged marriage to a minister. Newspapers proclaimed the marriage of a socialite to a...
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