“About one-third of the human brain is devoted to vision,” writes neuroscientist David Eagleman in his bestselling book on the brain Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. So when a blind person stops receiving visual input from their eyes, their brain-power can be reprogrammed to receive it in another way. Visual-tactile substitution glasses can take… [Read more…]
July 13, 2010
My wife’s grandmother recently passed away. In a conversation today about the upcoming funeral, our 5 year old daughter highlighted one of the beautiful aspects of Christian dying, in an exchange something like this.
June 26, 2010
I’m finally reading Thomas Lynch’s book The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade. It shouldn’t have taken me so long to read this important book. Still, I am now and glad for it. I hope to post again with other quotes from the book, but for now this: There’s this “just a shell” theory… [Read more…]
December 30, 2011
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