Category Archives: emotion

“In complex vertebrates, including humans, the amygdalae perform primary roles in the formation and storage of memories associated with emotional events.” Emotions are a form of motivation.

Divided, stressed citizens no match for corporate climate changers

2012-1-6 – 4:31 pm

A long time ago, well before I began this weblog, the obnoxious Professor Rehberg opened my eyes. Jim Hansen caught my heart

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Aversive Conditioning and Moral Judgment

2010-2-1 – 9:42 am

When you have them by the replicating systems, their memory and actions will follow.

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Makes One Wonder

2010-1-16 – 12:53 pm

When Reid reassures us that Congress will address climate policy this Spring, why does such a statement seem so dreadful, rather than reassuring?

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A Federal Policy of Sustainability

2010-1-10 – 2:24 pm

We may be unable to solve the crisis, but we sure can point the finger at the worst climate killers.

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Missed Opportunity

2009-12-21 – 11:29 am

My rendition of Bill Murrary doing Dick Burton doing Marley’s Ghost…

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Big, Loud Pushback

2008-12-21 – 11:13 pm

All too common, the attacks on climate science “usually aren’t very pretty.”

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When Was the Last Time That You Saved A Planet?

2008-12-12 – 9:00 am

Should producers of Internet videos to combat climate change be aware of the Stages of Change model?

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Biomimetics and Plus One Thinking

2006-8-9 – 1:27 pm

“Anticipation is making me wait, keeping me waiting”

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Ecology and Emotion

2005-10-12 – 11:23 am

Beep beep’m beep beep yeah

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Mad? Mad, You Say?

2005-4-2 – 7:10 pm

Did a computer crime occur or was it simply a glitch with the duplicate charge for drycleaning?

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