August 2010
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you...”
– Maya Angelou (via quote-book)
“In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of...”
– Bertrand Russell (via #johannal) (via quote-book)
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more...”
– Albert Einstein (via quote-book) (via norrskens)
“All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art...”
– Oscar Wilde (via weallseekthetruth) (via quote-book)
“For a brief moment, time stood still. Not really still. It sort of danced and...”
– Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver (via todayithought) (via quote-book)
I do not doubt the possibility of me having psychic abilities, seeing things that have not yet passed, or at the very least; having a hunch of things to come. I am in no way unaware of the abilities of others either, especially them seeing me and my thoughts, through my eyes, thus judging me like I do them.
“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein (via quote-book)
Mammalian Diving Reflex →
readmorewikipedia:
The mammalian diving reflex optimizes respiration which allows mammals to stay underwater for a long time. Both a conscious and an unconscious person can survive longer without oxygen under water than in a comparable situation on dry land.
Beyond the effect of the reflex when submerged in water, the reflex is used consciously in “splashing cold water on one’s face.” This is...
Humans Have a Lot More Than Five Senses →
jmek:
Today I found out humans have a lot more than five senses. It turns out, there are at least nine senses and most researchers think there are more like twenty-one or so. Just for reference, the commonly held definition of a “sense” is “any system that consists of a group of sensory cell types that respond to a specific physical phenomenon and that corresponds to a particular group of...
The Word ‘Man’ was Originally Gender Neutral →
jmek:
Today I found out that the word ‘man’ was originally gender neutral, meaning more or less the same as the modern day word “person”. It wasn’t until about a thousand years ago that the word “man” started to refer to a male and it wasn’t until the late 20th century that it was almost exclusively used to refer to males.
Before “man” meant a male, the word “wer” or “wǣpmann” was commonly...
Damn it M, R. He makes me think of you. The singer...
“I write because there are screaming things in my head, and they will not be...”
– Camille Moffatt (A Cup of Comfort for Writers) (via cinderellainrubbershoes) (via teachingliteracy) (via claireisanaspiringnovelist)
“She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via bibliotech) (via fuckyeahjonathansafranfoer, bibliotech-deactivated20100521) (via weareinfinite) (via jmek)
Those who suppress anger become violent when...
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It was like, for a moment, I believed I had lost...
Du höll mig när jag var barn. Du hjälpte mig upp....
Musiken ljuder högt i öronen. Snäckorna dämpar...
L'esprit de l'escalier →
readmorewikipedia:
L’esprit de l’escalier or esprit d’escalier (staircase wit) is thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late. The phrase can be used to describe a riposte to an insult or any witty remark that comes to mind too late to be useful—after one has left the scene of the encounter. The phenomenon is usually accompanied by a feeling of regret at not having thought of it when it...
A white horse and a black cloak float over a...
“Static empirical knowledge does not exist. Rather, it is the insight of the...”
– Peter Josepth (via heartmindspirit) (via jmek)
Jamais vu →
readmorewikipedia:
Often described as the opposite of déjà vu, jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer’s impression of seeing the situation for the first time, despite rationally knowing that he or she has been in the situation before.
List of words having different meanings in British... →
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“You going up to the mountain again tonight?”,...
“One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow...”
– Stephen Fry (via myrthe) (via turningtomyverses) (via jmek)
The lights of the city flared in the dark, and...
