September 2011
Clue to sexual attraction found in lesbian brain. →
newscientist.com
Lesbian and heterosexual women respond differently to specific human odours, a brain-scanning study has found. The homosexual women showed similar brain activity to heterosexual men when they inhaled certain chemicals, which may be pheromones, the researchers say.
“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to these teachers.”
—Kahlil Gibran via thelittlesea (via petitpoulailler)
2105:
“Facebook’s version of autobiography is very specific. It is data-driven. It is simple: Alexis likes the iPad. Alexis eats a hamburger. Alexis reads The Innovator’s Cookbook. It is a ranked, chronological database of a life. It is technically complex but grammatically simple. It is multimedia, but not rich. It is autobiography without aesthetic effort. It is a story without words.”
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Alexis Madrigal | Facebook Timeline: Putting the Auto in Autobiography (via courtenaybird)
Foster The People--Pumped Up Kicks (Butch Clancy RMX) *DL link in Desc.*
Pumped Up Kicks dubstep remix by Butch Clancy
originally by Foster the Peoplecheck out a video of Marquese Scott aka NONSTOP dupstepping along:
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”
—Ray Bradbury (via jesuisperdu)
“The richer–that is, the more varied and complete–the individual’s emotional life, the less is he driven to projection, and the more will he incline to identification. His outlet and satisfaction comes in identifying himself with the emotions of the other. On the other hand, the narrower and more restricted the individual’s emotional life, the more intense will be his fewer emotions, the less will he be inclined to, and capable of, identification–the lack of which he has to compensate for by projection. Projection thus proves to be a compensatory mechanism that adjusts for an inner lack. Identification, on the other hand, is an expression of abundance, of the desire for union, for alliance, for sharing.”
—Otto Frank, “Love, Guilt and the Denial of Feelings” (1927)
“Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.”
—Virginia Woolf (via bookmania)
It is dawning upon me that my greatest weakness is that I don’t know how to love. Too much a cynic, too much indifference.
What Motivates STEM Students? Depends on Their Gender →
good.is
The survey found that 68 percent of STEM majors say one of their major motivating factors is financial. That makes sense—STEM graduates have higher starting salaries than their peers. The same number say they are attracted to science and math fields because they are “intellectually stimulating and challenging.” But salary is the top factor for male students and intellectual stimulation is the top factor for female students.
Furthermore, 49 percent of female STEM majors said they chose their field “to make a difference”, compared to a relatively paltry 34 percent of male students. It’s particularly interesting given that three teen girls swept the Google Science Fair this year, with the judges commending the young women’s “intellectual curiosity, their tenaciousness, and their ambition to use science to find solutions to big problems.”
» via GOOD
“While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
