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Aug 16, 2025

The Magical-Looking Water of Tsalal Island

How Edgar Allan Poe accidentally predicted the discovery of liquid crystals.

John William Waterhouse’s “Circe Invidiosa,” 1892. WikiArt. Public Domain.

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Jun 21

More and Less Exciting Things

Universal patterns in language and behavior reveal that pairs of psychological opposites are structured such that one component is more…

More and Less Exciting Things

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Dec 6, 2025

Fluidity and Solidness in Culture

The same psychological bias that causes the selection of fluid~solid mixtures in poetry and creation stories causes them in culture more…

Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Amida Falls in the Far Reaches of the Kisokaidō Road.” Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.

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Nov 27, 2025

Thesis and Predictions

The structure of aesthetic phenomena can be explained by preferences that arise from the soft, liquid crystalline physical state of the…

John Collier's "Priestess of Delphi," 1891. WikiArt. Public Domain.

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Nov 24, 2025

Fluidity and Solidness in the Philosophy of Biology

Philosophers have always recognized life as a complex mixture of fluid and solid components.

George Frederick Watts’ “Creation,” 1875. WikiArt. Public Domain.

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Nov 8, 2025

Liquid Crystallinity as a Fundamental Property of Life

The most important and under-appreciated characteristic of life is its complex, intermediate, liquid crystalline physical condition.

Katsushika Hokusai’s “Femenine wave.” WikiArt. Public Domain.

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Sep 1, 2025

Fluidity and Solidness in Poetry

The abundance of juxtapositions of fluidity with solidness in poetry requires and explanation involving a universal feature of human…

Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “The ‘Little’ Tower of Babel,” 1563. WikiArt. Public Domain.

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Aug 24, 2025

Creation Stories and States of Matter

Stories of creation reflect the complex liquid crystalline physical state of life.

Kobayashi Eitaku’s “Izanagi and Izanami,” c. 1885. Wikipedia. Public Domain.

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Jul 24, 2024

Perceptual Excitement and Eysenck’s Mechanism of Personality

Eysenck’s theory of introvert versus extrovert behavior and arousal can be used to determine the relative excitingness of various primitive…

Perceptual Excitement and Eysenck’s Mechanism of Personality

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May 13, 2024

Monoaesthetic Mixtures in Language, Culture and Biology

Various idiomatic expressions, cultural creations and biological traits have been selected for due to the amusing, contradictory way in…

Monoaesthetic Mixtures in Language, Culture and Biology

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Stories about aesthetic complexity and universal animal preferences for mixtures of more and less exciting physical and psychological opposites.

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