May 2013
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Molly Brown was an American socialite, philanthropist, and activist who became famous due to her survival of the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic. Molly Brown was later called “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” by authors because she helped in the ship’s evacuation, taking an oar herself in her lifeboat and urging that the lifeboat go back and save more people.
April 2013
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“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a...”
– Bette Davis
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East Asian Physical Traits Linked to... →
The discovery explains a crucial juncture in the evolution of East Asians, and the method used can also be applied to some 400 other sites on the human genome.
Gaining a deep insight into human evolution, researchers have identified a mutation in a critical human gene as the source of several distinctive traits that make East Asians different from other races.
The traits — thicker hair shafts,...
pingpongtabletennis asked: p.s. Have you read the love letters between Percy Shelley and his new wife Mary Wollstonecraft?
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Arranged Marriages Maybe?
There appears to be a striking positive correlation between the amount that a culture emphasizes love as the basis of marriage and its divorce rate - an ironic fact that suggests that the more we insist on maintaining love in a marriage the less successful we seem to be doing it.
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you are what you speak
The language people speak seems to activate an associated cultural network, and this influences how they think. When bilinguals switch between languages, they are not just bringing different vocabularies and grammars to mind - they seem to be bringing different selves to mind as well.
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“For there are two states in which humans beings attain to the feeling of delight...”
– Nietzsche
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Would Know - Mount Kimbie
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“For dust you are and unto dust shall you return”
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Anonymous asked: I hope you're not offended but your blog has made me fall in love with you
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Why should someone choose to study philosophy?... →
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“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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privacy13 asked: Have you read any Noam Chomsky? What do you think of his work?
Anonymous asked: how old are you? I get the feeling you're from new york
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March 2013
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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.”
– St Augustine
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Clocks
Clocks were originally designed to regulate monastic rhythms of prayer. They were used in religious movements to discipline the body in new patterns of ritualization and socialization.
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Whales and Cultural Learning
Different populations of killer whales have been found to speak different dialects, to the point that researchers can recognize a whale pod by the sound they’re making. And, these dialects have been shown to change over time, just as human cultures do.
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“If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry....”
– Jonathan Haidt
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Books contain fewer words about feelings →
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Other than fear, words about emotions have steadily decreased in books throughout the last century, say researchers.
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in...”
– Proust
Listen
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10 Commandments for Atheists
1. Resilience. Keeping going even when things are looking dark.
2. Empathy. The capacity to connect imaginatively with the sufferings and unique experiences of another person.
3. Patience. We should grow calmer and more forgiving by getting more realistic about how things actually tend to go.
4. Sacrifice. We won’t ever manage to raise a family, love someone else or save the planet if we...
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Individual Self
The notion of individual selves didn’t really emerge in Western literature until the 12th century, when the Christian concept of the last judgement changed from being an issue of the salvation of collectives to the salvation of the individual souls.
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“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding...”
– Carl Sagan
pingpongtabletennis asked: "Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Wether." I'm almost finished! I had to put it down for a while. Genius? Yes, A youthful perspective? Definitely. I'll check in next week. PPTT
February 2013
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Anonymous asked: What do you do for work?
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“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
– Bob Dylan
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Anais Nin
Her name conjures the most erotic imagery of the Twenty First Century and her collections of diaries has inspired writers both female and male. She can be considered an early feminist icon because she was unafraid to express herself sexually in both her experiences and writing. Even by today’s standards of erotic literature her descriptions are able to evoke emotions that are sensual without the...
January 2013
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A Brief History of Panic →
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perspicacious
[pərspiˈkāSHəs]
Adj: Having a ready insight into and understanding of things
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Kissing Cousins →
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“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of...”
– Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Wether
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