Why do we call our parents ‘Mum’, ‘Dad’ and other similar words? Researchers tend to say that those words come from the sounds babies make… — Why do we call our parents ‘Mum’, ‘Dad’ and other similar words? Researchers tend to say that those words come from the sounds babies make, but this isn’t a very satisfactory answer. Probably all societies teach children to call their parents by names and nicknames that mean they are parents…

In the study of human behaviour, there are many neurologists, geneticists, cognitive psychologists, psycholinguists and other researchers… — In the study of human behaviour, there are many neurologists, geneticists, cognitive psychologists, psycholinguists and other researchers with an analytic approach. These professionals view our actions as determined by our component parts, such as cells and molecules. …

A careless boy has broken the baker’s shop window. The baker is angry. Now he will need to spend his hard-earned money on replacing the… — A careless boy has broken the baker’s shop window. The baker is angry. Now he will need to spend his hard-earned money on replacing the window rather than buying himself a new pair of shoes. The glazier, however, is happy. We intuitively understand that this (presumed) accident in which value…

KNOCK KNOCK — KNOCK KNOCK Who’s there? It’s the police ma’m, your son has been hit by a drunk driver. He’s dead. Whoever came up with this for the movie Joker was probably trying to think of the worst joke ever. Why do we laugh? What makes anything funny? There is a big…

Shaun the Sheep and the current psyche — They say psychoanalysis is not a science. Fair enough. Astrophysics is a science, but when I go watch a movie about outer space, it is always about fathers and sons. If I were an alien, I would find out about the unconscious preoccupations of human beings by watching popular movies…

I sometimes feel like a flying fish who has had the opportunity to take a ‘bird’s eye view’ of the water in which we swim, and is now… — Apparently, it is illegal to destroy a bank note. I didn’t know that when I and a friend ripped two 50€ notes and threw them into the sea. I was just testing that I could do it, because otherwise — I thought to myself — there is a chance that…