Apr
12
Curiosities
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Poetry of Physics, Physics of Poetry (thanks Ron Silliman)
Some massive galaxies like Milky Way relatively new
Apr
7
Curiosities
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Women May Be Sniffing Out Biologically-relevant Information From Underarm Sweat
Schmidt Tells Newspaper Execs: I’m From Google, and I’m Here to Help
Mar
17
Curiosities
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London’s Mayor recommends the English learn their poetry
As anyone who loves poetry will testify, when you learn a good poem, you make a good friend. You have a voice that will pop up in your head, whenever you want it, and say something beautiful and consoling and true. A poem can keep you going when you are driving on a lonely motorway, or when you are trapped on some freezing ledge in the Alps, or when you are engaged in any kind of arduous and repetitive physical activity, and need to keep concentration. When some disaster overwhelms you, or when you are feeling unusually cheerful – or when you are experiencing any human feeling whatever – it is amazing how often some line or phrase will swim to the surface and help to articulate your emotions, to intensify them or to console.
Young Dinosoaurs Lived and Roamed Together
How many practicing poets in America? 10,000? 20,000? More?
Feb
24
“When Dreaming Is Believing: Dreams Affect People’s Judgment, Behavior”
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“In another study reported in the article, the researchers wanted to explore how dreams might influence people’s waking behavior. They surveyed 182 commuters at a Boston train station, asking them to imagine that one of four possible scenarios had happened the night before a scheduled airline trip: The national threat level was raised to orange, indicating a high risk of terrorist attack; they consciously thought about their plane crashing; they dreamed about a plane crash; or a real plane crash occurred on the route they planned to take. A dream of a plane crash was more likely to affect travel plans than either thinking about a crash or a government warning, and the dream of a plane crash produced a similar level of anxiety as did an actual crash.”
