- Rocky Prairie Natural Area Preserve (dnr.wa.gov)
This 35 acre preserve, located on a glacial outwash plain, protects an example of the “Mima Mound” landscape and a small remnant of native Puget prairie grassland, which is dotted with large glacial cobbles. The landscape is a gently rolling plain with low swales and rises. The largest known population of golden paintbrush, a federally listed threatened plant species, grows on the preserve. A state-listed sensitive plant species that grows only in Puget prairies, white topped aster, is also protected on the preserve.
- Magical thinking (Wikipedia)
Magical thinking, or superstitious thinking, is the belief that unrelated events are causally connected despite the absence of any plausible causal link between them, particularly as a result of supernatural effects. Examples include the idea that personal thoughts can influence the external world without acting on them, or that objects must be causally connected if they resemble each other or have come into contact with each other in the past. Magical thinking is a type of fallacious thinking and is a common source of invalid causal inferences. Unlike the confusion of correlation with causation, magical thinking does not require the events to be correlated.