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[] El término “seno de Abraham” sólo se encuentra una vez en el Nuevo Testamento, en la historia del hombre rico y Lázaro (Lucas 16:19-31), en la que Jesús estaba enseñando sobre la realidad del cielo y el infierno. La palabra griega kolpos que se utiliza allí es algo difícil de interpretar. Por ejemplo, a veces se interpreta como “junto a” Abraham o “los brazos de” Abraham o al “lado de Abraham”. Read More...
Listening to someone speak is a simple process. The sound waves leave their mouth, enter your ear and travel to your brain, where your neurons get busy making sense of those random sounds. It all seems pretty straightforward, right?
Well, not quite. As the video below shows, sometimes this very simple process can go weirdly wrong.
The video below demonstrates something called the McGurk effect, a famous perceptual illusion that psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald discovered in the 1970s while studying how children develop language. Read More...
A little more than four years ago, my husband left me for another woman. This isn’t an uncommon occurrence. That he went on to marry her, however, is.
When I first learned about her existence after seeing suspicious texts on his phone, I was determined to find out whatever I could — who she was, how long she knew my husband and, most important, what she wanted from him.
So I picked up the phone, and I called her. Read More...