March 2012
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“Santorum is too liberal so I guess I’ll vote Romney”
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hahaha HAHAHAHAHA hahahaha
what the FUCK is wrong with you
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes →
A new book, Language: A Cultural Tool, and an accompanying documentary chronicle a linguist’s encounter with the Amazonian Piraha tribe.
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I haven’t changed my theme in nearly 3 years. Hmm.
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TV On The Radio - I Was A Lover
We’re just...
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fare-hopping
This is one of the most annoying and hypocritical types of behavior I see on the train, especially from my own age group. 20-somethings love to complain about fare hiking and infrequent trains and the early closing times, but habitually refuse to pay to use the service. Are you stupid? I understand that the MBTA has taken on a lot of debt from unfinished projects and poor speculative financing,...
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spilling water from my back, you call and i come that exhausted walk to reach you breathless and no i didn’t run to see you, i’ve been smoking too much, same thing. another awkward hug in the car as my face smashes your cheek that i can feel it leaving now is the saddest, a beautiful eruption you could have picked it off the tree and chewed but you weren’t hungry. feeling it...
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love...”
– Voltaire
Trayvon's Law
girlebony:
After seeing the Mother Jones posting that links to Glen Beck calling him “the aggressor” (among other things I can’t bare to type right now) I had this thought… If Trayvon were a little white girl, we’d have Trayvon’s Law by now. By now. Three weeks later. True story. At least some legislature. Some angry little team of white mothers would be up in arms. Having candlelight vigils...
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I’m down with OWS but I’m not down with them co-opting the Trayvon Martin rally for their own benefit. Let us respect the grievances of others and prevent good intentions from being muddled by selfish motives, k?
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Is Running Barefoot Really Better? →
Most athletes have heard of the “Barefoot Movement,” inspired in part by the 2009 book Born to Run , which chronicled the barefoot superathletes of the Tarahumara tribe and had even the most seasoned runners ditching their Pumas. The theory and logic behind it makes sense, for the most part:
A few previous studies suggested that in terms of physiological effort, it’s easier to...
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"Human Language Gene" Alters the Sound of a... →
In a region of the brain called the basal ganglia…the humanized mice grew nerve cells that had a more complex structure. Baby mice utter ultrasonic whistles when removed from their mothers. The humanized baby mice, when isolated, made whistles that had a slightly lower pitch, among other differences, Dr. Ernard says. He argues that putting significant human genes into mice is the only...
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The Benefits of Being Bilingual →
Why does the tussle between two simultaneously active language systems improve these aspects of cognition? Until recently, researchers thought the bilingual advantage stemmed primarily from an ability for inhibition that was honed by the exercise of suppressing one language system: this suppression, it was thought, would help train the bilingual mind to ignore distractions in other contexts. But...
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“But that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via seabois) 