Author Archives: Andrew
Afternoon nap ...
Okay, so I kept reading about language and thought and came across a fascinating article I had read a few years ago. Chew on this: A recent set of studies suggests that the grammatical genders assigned to objects by a language do indeed influence people’s mental representations of objects (Boroditsky et al., in press). […] Spanish [...]
Light ...
I love our living room in the afternoon.
A Language of Smiles — Olivia Judson Blog — NYTimes.com A set of experiments investigating the effects of facial movements on mood used different vowel sounds as a stealthy way to get people to pull different faces. (The idea was to avoid people realizing they were being made to scowl or smile.) The results showed that if you read [...]
Not today, which is crummy, but Sunday, which was beautiful!
A few months ago I posted a graph of my music listening and was asked how I produced that. Andrew Godwin runs a really nice service called LastGraph that creates these graphs based on one’s Last.fm profile data. Of course, what would this be without a new one? (I had to check it out again, of course.) [...]
2009 UN World Drug report — The Big Picture — Boston.com
WNYC — Radiolab: New Normal? (October 02, 2009) John Horgan examines how Americans seem to have a completely different attitude toward war than we did thirty years ago. He takes us on a stroll through Hoboken, asking strangers one of the great unanswerable questions: “Will humans ever stop fighting wars?” Strangely, everyone seems to know the answer. Robert [...]
Happy Halloween! ...