December 2009
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“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our...”
– Richard Dawkins, from Chpt 1 of his 1998 book Unweaving the Rainbow (via designtumblelog)
“1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
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– Douglas Adams in DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, explaining how the world works (1999). (via designtumblelog)
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and...”
– Dr. Suess (via therealkatiewest)
Hysteria was originally thought to only occur in...
ohyeahfacts:
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From Wikipedia:
“Until the seventeenth century, hysteria was regarded as of uterine origin (from the Greek “hustera” = uterus) in the Western world. Hysteria referred to a medical condition, thought to be particular to women, caused by disturbances of the uterus. The term hysteria was coined by Hippocrates, who thought that suffocation and madness...
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“Twelve Rules for being Human
1. You will receive a body.
You may like it or...”
– (via oceanofmind) (via seekingsatori) (via poetbabble)
TED Blog: New TED.com feature: The Best of the Web →
Over the next weeks and months, you’ll see the Best of the Web collection grow to include a large variety of great talks on technology, entertainment, design and all the other topics you can find on TED.com.
Why do people dance? (The Guardian) →
psychotherapy:
The office party is in full swing, you’ve knocked back a few glasses of bubbly and edged on to the sticky dancefloor where Fred from accounts is looking strangely attractive as he struts out some wild moves. Nearby, Ian from IT is boogieing like nobody’s watching. What makes them so confident while your feet are shyly shifting from side to side? According to Dr Peter Lovatt,...
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Rejection massively reduces IQ (New Scientist) →
jessny:
psychotherapy:
Rejection can dramatically reduce a person’s IQ and their ability to reason analytically, while increasing their aggression, according to new research.
“It’s been known for a long time that rejected kids tend to be more violent and aggressive,” says Roy Baumeister of the Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, who led the work. “But we’ve found that randomly assigning...
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