Author Archives: Andrew

Lazy Afternoon ...

We’ve spent the after­noon going through pictures.

Happy Halloween! ...

Happy Hal­loween everyone!

Afternoon nap ...

der/die/das and el/la make you think differently ...

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.

Language and Thought ...

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 […]

Google Maps Navigation ...

Google Maps Nav­i­ga­tion: A Free, Ass-Kicking, Turn-by-Turn Mobile App  —  Google maps nav­i­ga­tion  —  Giz­modo If Google sells this in the App Store for zero dol­lars, those mil­lions of bucks Apple makes off of GPS app sales will likely dis­ap­pear. It’s not for us to worry about until there’s no more GPS com­pe­ti­tion except Google, and we’re depen­dent on […]

Autumn in Atlanta ...

Not today, which is crummy, but Sun­day, which was beautiful!

Visualized: What have I been listening to? ...

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.) […]

The Big Picture: 2009 UN World Drug report ...

2009 UN World Drug report  —  The Big Pic­ture  —  Boston​.com

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