Metaphors of the Mind : Why Loneliness Feels Cold and Sins Feel Dirty. Also contains some observations about creativity and self-identity. (via Boing Boing )
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Hybrids are yesterday’s news by Nissan’s standards. They see all-electric vehicles as the wave of the future.
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American Circus and Carnival Slang . If you’ve ever wondered what these guys were saying, now you can look it up. (via Metafilter )
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How to develop a taste for fermented horse milk. Ah, the joys of Mongolian cuisine .
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Scientists have found a safer way to make versatile stem cells from everyday adult skin cells. The “biggest stem cell breakthrough in a decade” could lead to actual use in human patients.
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Five things you didn’t know about the accordion . Probably because it never occurred to you to ask.
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Sea shanties were work songs sung on ships during the age of sail. Quite a few have survived for you to listen to today.
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Derrítanse HDP!!!! Que yo estoy entre la risa y la lagrima conmovedora con esta pequeña francesa, realmente tierna, y la historia que cuenta, hay que poner mucha atención a esa acentuación: Vía Boing Boing...... more
Boing Boing ran a review of Malcolm Gladwell’s new book Outliers: The Story of Success , in which the author looks at how and why some people succeed in spite of their talents. What stood out to me, which we have discussed in "red-shirting" threads here before, was the correlation between success and practice, like, holding back student athletes to give them an extra year of training. According to a New York Magazine article cited by Boing Boing’s David Peskovitz, Gla... more
We live in a farm house built in 1930. Even though we’re in Los Angeles, our neighborhood is zoned for farm animals and agriculture. Whoever lived in the house before us loved fruit trees. We’ve got grapefruit, oranges, clementines, olives, figs, persimmons, plums, and feijoas. The feijoas, also called pineapple guavas, are my second favorite fruit from our yard (the figs are my favorite). They have a perfumey scent, a tart, firm, gritty flesh, and a sweet custardy center. (I’m... more
Today marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of Mark Rothko (1903-1970), a Latvian-American artist who believed “pictures must be miraculous.†In honor of Rothko, and at the request of reader nikki, today we’ll take a look at Rothko’s life and art. (Shown above is his 1938 “Entrance to Subway,” part of his Subway Scenes series.)
1. Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz to a highly-educated family fluent in Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew. At the age... more
What can a team of design students create in just 24 hours? How about a complete video game level, crammed with animation, danger, and innovative art?
Last weekend, students from New York City’s slightly awkwardly-named Parsons The New School for Design divided themselves into teams to design levels for an upcoming PlayStation 3 game called LittleBigPlanet . In the game, the player controls a little “sackboy” (with what appears to be a hacky sack for a head) as ... more
I have a weird fascination with underground rivers, be they natural, man-made, or just plain awesome. In a recent post about phobias, many people expressed fear of things lurking beneath murky bodies of water; what could be darker, or stranger or scarier than something lurking in a body of water that is itself lurking underground? There are many in the world: here’s one of our favorites.
London’s River Fleet
The largest of the so-called “lost” tributaries of the Tham... more
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