My vestibular system is totally confused:
See James Fallows for the explanation. Movies like this make me glad that pilots rely on gyroscopes to guide them through the clouds.
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The Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) is about to commence its annual Mid-Winter Meeting, which is the largest scientific meeting in my field.
Boy, was Descartes wrong. His philosophy of duality divided our being into two distinct substances: a holy soul and a mortal carcass. The soul was the source of reason, science and everything nice. Our flesh, on the other hand, was "clocklike," just a machine that bleeds.
Although I don't care much about money, I do regret that having none means that buying beautiful works of art is something that I cannot do.