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lost and found at tiny thing
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twisty says:
They take a word or phrase that everybody feels good about, or that has meant one thing for centuries, say, “freedom”, then they decide that it now means something they like better, say, “white Christian men own the world’s uteruses.” Their marketing department turns “freedom” into a brand, and redistribute it as the entirely new concept, thus completely neutralizing its value and turning speech, oratory, and even casual conversation over a couple of tacos into nothing more than insipid puffs of sweaty, hypocritical air gasping from vulgar, thoughtless lips. In other words, words mean nothing. And usually that nothing can be relied upon to be creepy.
go read right now...Labels: reading
more reading...
suggestions: ogged asked unfogged to broaden his horizons - and this is what they said.
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unsuggestions: Unsuggester takes "people who like this also like that" and turns it on its head. It analyzes the seven million books LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and comes back with books least likely to share a library with the book you suggest. Labels: reading
reading: have you ever
The underlying assumption is that as long as the general public never sees the price of diamonds fall, it will not become nervous and begin selling its diamonds. If this huge inventory should ever reach the market, even De Beers and all the Oppenheimer resources could not prevent the price of diamonds from plummeting.
tried to sell a diamond?Labels: reading
reading: about autism
Many people with autism have problems understanding metaphors, sometimes interpreting them literally. They also have difficulty miming other people's actions. Often they display an eccentric preoccupation with trifles yet ignore important aspects of their environment, especially their social surroundings. Equally puzzling is the fact that they frequently show an extreme aversion to certain sounds that, for no obvious reason, set off alarm bells in their minds.
broken mirrors at the scientific americanLabels: reading
reading: more on childhoods
the guardian writes about fathers: 'I can remember thinking - this is actually easier on my own. All I have to do is sit down, think what is best for him, and go make it happen.'
and gladwell talks about being gifted: We think of precociousness as an early form of adult achievement, and, according to Gladwell, that concept is much of the problem. “What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.”Labels: reading
reading: more about happiness
moxie hosts a discussion about happy childhoods: What do the rest of you think? Have you been intentional about facilitating happy childhoods for your kids? What have you identified as the crucial elements?Labels: reading
reading: more about death
People who have had near death experiences commonly report being surrounded by a bright light or gazing down on themselves in an operating theatre.
'Near death' has biological basis - bbcLabels: reading
reading: hope i die
“People often believe that happiness is a matter of circumstance, that if something good happens, they will experience long-lasting happiness, or if something bad happens, they will experience long-term misery,” he says. “But instead, people’s happiness results more from their underlying emotional resources — resources that appear to grow with age. People get better at managing life’s ups and downs, and the result is that as they age, they become happier — even though their objective circumstances, such as their health, decline.”
before I get old: study finds attitudes about aging contradict realityLabels: reading
reading: jane goodall in beijing
"Then I may just go up and..." And here she turned to the translator and planted a big wet kiss on his cheek, amplified by the microphone he was holding up defensively to his lip.
idle words strike again...Labels: reading
i wish i was reading: gertrude
reading: the cleaning up
F. Scott Fitzgerald, near the conclusion of "The Great Gatsby," described the reckless scions of privilege: "They were careless people ... They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
"all the father's men" at salonLabels: reading, think
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