A wonderful resource from Robotwisdom on romantic love:
Here are several thousand quotes about romantic love, set within an analysis of the normal course it takes:
* Wishing (and loneliness)
* Seeking (includes dating-advice genre)
* Hoping (the symptoms of love)
* Planning (the best intentions)
* Weighing (is this match plausible?)
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This is an absolutely brilliant presentation given by Clay Shirky (author of the new smash hit on organizing Without organizations called “Here Comes Everybody“) on the topic of “Where do they find the time”. You hear this phrase, usually in response to some report of silly activity or massively time consuming hobby. We Clay knows [...]
Moon River alerted me to something by The Nonist on Flâneurs:
This is a map by de Lauwe of all the movements made during one year by a student living in the 16th Arrondissement of Paris. Her itinerary forms a small triangle with no significant deviations, the three apexes of which are the School of [...]
Ever since I read Timothy D. Wilson’s magnificent “Strangers to Ourselves“, I have been fascinated with the fact that we often know less about ourselves than our closest friends and family (thanks probably to our many cognitive biases) .
Enter MIT’s Reality Mining Project:
[O]ur ultimate goal is to create a predictive classifier that [...]
From the ever superb Kevin Kelly, come this introduction to the documentary film Crazy Love:
Love is weird. This is a riveting story about a mutual love/hate relationship so obsessive, so disturbing, so insane, and yet in the end so conventional, that it challenges your own concept of love — and sanity. The guy [...]
The central tenet of those who support unrestricted mass immigration has long been its putative economic benefits.
When the social costs of mass immigration were pointed out, the Homo Economicus argument would be deployed.
I have long seen through the sham of this argument and I am on record slamming it regularly.
See or example:
Immigration sophistry debunked…again
The [...]
Dr Mega (left) and Stephen Schwartz (right), paid shills or merely educated bigots?
Have agents of Serbia’s Radical Party or perhaps renegade elements of the Serbian Intelligence Service successfully penetrated the US right-wing media establishment to conduct False Flag Operations against legitimate critics of Serbia?
Sometimes it seems that way.
It appears that someone is successfully seeding [...]
Please watch this powerful and beautiful short speech by Jill Bolte Taylor about how she came to observer her own stoke as it happened, and how it transformed her life.
TED | Talks | Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (video)
In March 2003, social psychologist Richard Nisbett published his groundbreaking book “The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why“, which challenged the received wisdom that all human groups perceive and reason in the same way. He came to the conclusion, based mostly on observation and social psychology studies, that Asians and Westerners
“Have [...]
Or how I came to believe that we should give them their country even though they don’t deserve it and it was stolen by the thieving hypocrite bullies of the EU/US…
The happy innocent days when Serbs thought that with Slobo gone, they would be treated fairly.
I have received a number of emails from friends curious [...]