February 2012
73 posts
“You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall...”
– Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
“Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because...”
– Ingrid (White Oleander)
“Four years ago I was just a guy who had a crush on a girl who had a boyfriend....”
– Jim Halpert’s wedding speech to his wife, Pam Beesly
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How language affects economic behavior has been hotly discussed of late, primarily due to an unpublished paper from Yale economist Keith Chen on the same: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...
