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From the people who brought you "D'Oh!", we now have "Meh" from The Simpsons entering our dictionary. So what do you think? Ought this word be a word in the dictionary? What does it mean for a word to be in the dictionary—to be ‘official' and recognized in the first place? Ought anyone even care what is placed in or left out? Your decision on this matter ought not sink to the level of meh Read More

What is remarkable about the homunculus is that to understand ourselves better we have resorted to inventing a copy of ourselves inside ourselves. So how did I get to be a homunculus, and what did I learn? Interestingly, I shrank myself—in a way—and started thinking about how we have come to invent ourselves outside of ourselves as well as inside.

The subtitle to my Psychology Today blog is “What our language reveals about how we think and who we are”.
In the 80s, AT&T urged people—metaphorically—to ‘reach out and touch someone’ with their telephone service. (A literal suggestion to do so would have been baffling and possibly criminal.) So what did this metaphor of contact evoke exactly, and why was it so effective a tag-line? Telephones have always defied the distances society has created through migration, colonization, and urbanization—a magic that can now seem ordinary....







