February 2012
53 posts
Calories are little unscrupulous bugs that live in...
“Learn to love solitude – to be more alone with yourselves. The problem with...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky
“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and...”
– Lewis B. Smedes
“Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?”
– Sigmund Freud
Linguistic relativity →
How language affects economic behavior has been hotly discussed of late, primarily due to an unpublished paper from Yale economist Keith Chen on the same:
Chen […] thinks that if your language has clear grammatical future tense marking […], then you and your fellow native speakers have a dramatically increased likelihood of exhibiting high rates of obesity, smoking, drinking, debt, and poor...
“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because...”
– H. Jackson Browne
“That was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who...”
– Kami Garcia
“Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a...”
– Robert Kennedy
