Category Archives: Personal
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.) [...]
Jared Diamond: Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed a crucial stage at which we made the worst mistake in human history. Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny. Hunter-gatherers practiced the most successful and longest lasting [...]
It’s any wonder that it’s my favorite season!
Acceptance ...
Baby Boomer Drug Abuse Resonates With Listeners : NPR [In late August] we talked about a disturbing report by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. […] Now, at the close of that conversation, we asked our listeners to tell us more about how these findings might be playing out in their own lives, [...]
At Starbucks ...
I should be good for a few hours, eh?
Wondermark » Archive » #557; The Masters of Tea Or, as Becca put it so aptly, “Lipton is carpet water.”
Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance I’m a sucker for these animated explanations. And the parallels about fire-fighting insurance are pretty striking.
Light ...