Brain

What’s in a name? How we describe something influences our experience!

Notwithstanding the terrible devastation going on in certain parts of the globe at the moment, how we describe something affects our experience of it. And astonishingly, people tend to put themselves in harm’s way when the storm, or hurricane, if you’re in the States – has a female name! Because then it seems, we [...]

General

They call the wind “Maria”

But it would be safer to call it ‘Mario’! Last week’s Storm Doris did for me, I’m afraid… A gust-related, window-incident and now I have a strained wrist! But that’s nothing compared to what can happen to people in the worst of the weather. And astonishingly, people tend to put [...]