December 2011
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– -neil-gaiman
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Distinguishing blue from green in language -... →
The English language makes a distinction between blue and green, but some languages do not. Of these, quite a number, mostly in Africa, do not distinguish blue from black either, while there are a handful of languages that do not distinguish blue from black but have a separate term for green.[1] Also, some languages treat light (often greenish) blue and dark blue as separate colors, rather than...
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Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists: How... →
If someone asked you to describe the psychological aspects of personhood, what would you say? Chances are, you’d describe things like thought, memory, problem-solving, reasoning, maybe emotion. In other words, you probably list the major headings of a cognitive psychology text-book. In cognitive psychology, we seem to take it for granted that these are, objectively, the primary components...
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“Our Internet intellectuals lack the intellectual ambition, and the basic...”
– The Internet Intellectual | The New Republic By Evgeny Morozov on October 12, 2011 (via danpatterson)
kenyatta:
It’s a shame that both the accusation above and the review that this quote comes from are so filled with anger and bile because it clouds what’s actually a very interesting question:...
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“Our Internet intellectuals lack the intellectual ambition, and the basic...”
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The Internet Intellectual | The New Republic By Evgeny Morozov on October 12, 2011 (via danpatterson)
It’s a shame that both the accusation above and the review that this quote comes from are so filled with anger and bile because it clouds what’s actually a very interesting question:...
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morningglorious asked: so i see youre pretty much in love with your dog, as am i with mine, but unfortunately i have to give him up :( he's a gorgeous chocolate brown pit, 2 years old, house broken, and loving as all hell. do you think you'd know anyone interesting in him? im just running out of time and options so im starting to go for the long shots any help at all would be great :)
zorahnakhota asked: Hello from Russia!))) How are you???) What are you listening now??? I mean the song!!!) And Happy New Year!)
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“It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often...”
– William Gibson on “What’s wrong with ‘Cyberpunk’ in ‘Paris Review’
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“The part that will suck though is that there will always be those people that...”
– Scumbag Steve’s Advice for Annoying Facebook Girl | Slacktory
This is not a joke. I really asked Blake Boston to write a letter to a girl who’s also unwittingly become a meme. And he really did, and it’s honest and helpful and addresses a distinctly modern phenomenon.
(via slacktory)
this is so...
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“London is promised an exercise in authoritarian elitism to rival Leonid...”
– Welcome to London 2012: the apparatchiks’ games - FT.com (via iamdanw)
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“What most users don’t know is that the new features being introduced are all...”
– Exclusive: Leaked Details of How Facebook Plans To Sell Your Timeline to Advertisers | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0. (via rafer)
Awesome.
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