As for outdoor cats, they shed the parasite for only three weeks of their life, typically when they’re young and have just begun hunting.
It sounds like a natural way for cats to become skilled at hunting, or for them to get better access to food while they are still young and unskilled.
As for outdoor cats, they shed the parasite for only three weeks of their life, typically when they’re young and have just begun hunting.
It sounds like a natural way for cats to become skilled at hunting, or for them to get better access to food while they are still young and unskilled.
As for outdoor cats, they shed the parasite for only three weeks of their life, typically when they’re young and have just begun hunting.
It sounds like a natural way for cats to become skilled at hunting, or for them to get better access to food while they are still young and unskilled.
a title that suggests that those at the door of a profession are expected to discriminate
It is important to set yourself apart from the other candidates for the position you're seeking so that you give them a reason to choose you over somebody else.
You’re just scratching the surface at the beginning
We gain more knowledge after we practice.
academic and cognitive requirement
Studying as well as indulging in outside information to strengthen your understanding
because this was trigonometry. It wasn’t easy material. But his energy seemed to infect the class.
College courses are tricky, but because the professor is an expert in that field it makes sense why they can breeze through the material. How do we retain the information? Being attentive, involved in the class discussion, and having an interest in learning.
feedback
Specific feedback from an accredited professor; learning is centralized and tailored to best fit the major/minor instead of many subjects at one time.
Mine are little lies. White lies. Half-truths. The kind we all tell. But I tell dozens of them every day.
It is just something everyone seems to do quite often now.
communicating
By being radically honest, it sparks conversation and discussion between two or more people. When He shared that he sometimes refers to his wife as his sister, his wife found it humorous and it got a lot off of his chest.
party
There's a difference between willingly telling everything you think about and telling the truth. He went out of his way to call his friend and say that he fantasizes about his wife, when he didn't have to say anything to him at all.
breakfast
This paragraph is another example how being too honest can affect a relationship. He blurted out during a business meeting that he would sleep with the editor if he were single.
Fuck you."
I feel like being brutally honest could potentially affect a relationship. As in this instance, his wife was upset that he said he did not want to hear the rest of her story.
I can see how this can help students by teaching and telling the students that the brain is a muscle can help kids see that if they put effort into learning it can help them get better grades. I can relate to this because my younger brothers now are having a hard time in school. I am not totally sure why but i believe it to be they do not put effort because they do not care or they dont think they can do it. If they were told that they don't need to be "smart" to get good grades, they just need to give their brain a challenge.
It's public proof that you can;t cut it on your natural gifts." Kids that have gifts at certain topics may not put as much effort into that work. So just because you don;t understand something doesn't mean someone should give up. But in the research it showed giving praise to kids can affect their performance in school. therefore what parents say to their kids could either positively or negatively influence their school work.
Almost everyone becomes proud of there kids for something. I sure they all say something between the lines of " your so smart!" or something like that. but what the research says is that the kids might feel that they are too intelligent to put effort forth. Some things they may be good at, but the lessons or topics they can't do, they decide to give up. This could also be turned around with parents bring down kids. What would the effect be if a parents was to call kids names or bring down there self esteem?
man and a woman
this is so hetronormative.
three pounds per year in 1830, rose to eight pounds by 1859.
I wonder what its at right now
With that, the two men began to cry.
:-(
We have to learn that sometimes a poor performance reflects not the innate ability of the performer but the complexion of the audience; and that sometimes a poor test score is the sign not of a poor student but of a good one.
justification after explanation of stereotype threat.
choking requires us to concern ourselves less with the performer and more with the situation in which the performance occurs.
**
They think they did well, and they are trying to do well. But they are not.” This is choking, not panicking.
Important example for distinction
But Steele says that when you look at the way black or female students perform under stereotype threat you don’t see the wild guessing of a panicked test taker. “What you tend to see is carefulness and second-guessing,”
accurate
“stereotype threat”
pressure causes performance to suffer
If panicking is conventional failure, choking is paradoxical failure.
More differences for better understanding.
he panicked.
got it
Kennedy failed under pressure.
choke or panic??
how failure happens is central to understanding why failure happens.
alright
Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.
I was right.
Stress wipes out short-term memory.
I like the example used. But there's a line between panic and choking that I'm not quite understanding. Choking is overthinking? Panic is not thinking?
She lost her fluidity, her touch
connection between examples makes point easier to follow
That’s what it means to choke
connection for choking and learning a set of physical skills.
These two learning systems are quite separate,
hence, choking and panicking are two different things.
“implicit learning”–learning that takes place outside of awareness.
Example is easy to follow. find a connect(?)
documenting the myriad ways in which talented people sometimes fail.
important
To choke or panic is considered to be as bad as to quit
nice
Both are pejoratives.
"Panicked" and "choked" express contempt or disapproval.
Both are pejoratives.
"Panicked" and "choked" express contempt or disapproval.
Human beings sometimes falter under pressure.
Appropriate examples.
Isn’t pressure supposed to bring out the best in us? We try harder. We concentrate harder. We get a boost of adrenaline. We care more about how well we perform. So what was happening to her?
We all have our different ways of dealing with pressure and to avoid cracking, we must find what is stopping us from winning
Novotna was unrecognizable, not an élite tennis player but a beginner again
Pressure induced her panic; was unable to cope well.
choke and others panic
Is there a better comparison? alternate words or phrases that aren't confusing
And you can’t even explain it properly, because what can you say? You did something the rest of us would never have done, based on something the rest of us would never have seen
This is why further development requires an exact science, so its now just a fancy hunch
“It was empowering, to have that kind of control,” she recalls. “Guys were texting and calling me all the time, and I was turning them down. I really enjoyed it! I had these options to hook up if I wanted them, and no one would judge me for it.”
This isn't what love is all about
Do they have hearts of steel or something? In my country, a girl like this would be desperate. Or a prostitute.
Americans are looked upon badly by people from other countries
Soylent-producing algae would make food a little like that: there would be no more wars over farmland, much less resource competition.
Economically beneficial solving the problem of scarce farm land also creating large amounts of demand.
Soylent-producing “superorganism”: a single strain of alga that pumps out Soylent all day. Then we won’t need factories.
Amibitious
But Soylent makes you realize how many daily indulgences we allow ourselves in the name of sustenance.
Soylent seems to be more effective if you're already a productive person crunching for time.
“There’s no afternoon crash, no post-burrito coma.” Afternoons can be just as productive as mornings.
No more need for that 3pm coffee anymore.
It’s more appealing after physical activity
In general, I think that you crave any meal after physical activity.
Then you assemble a recipe. If manufactured Soylent is a one-size-fits-all approach to nutrition, the D.I.Y. version is picky-eater heaven
Allowing to have others critic what you have already made is extremely beneficial to the product, since it introduces aspects you would not have thought of to the product.
“Under ideal storage conditions, this could last much longer.”
Easily able to pitch Soylent based on tastes and texture and the promise that it'll make you healthier.
The doctors I spoke to agreed that you could subsist on Soylent.
This could be helpful to those that can't chew their own food.
aspiring bodybuilders drink Muscle Milk, a protein shake designed to add brawn
I've used various protein and mass building shakes. I noticed slight differences between most but generally settling on taste to decide what to take.
“How much did I just drink?” Rhinehart studied the glass. “A hundred and fifty or two hundred calories,” he said. “About the equivalent of a granola bar.”
An effective way of controlling calories. I wouldn't mind trying it for a week or two.
“I think the best technology is the one that disappears,” he said. “Water doesn’t have a lot of taste or flavor, and it’s the world’s most popular beverage.”
Genius
The kitchen was bare, except for a blender.
Astonishing that they are able to replace food altogether with just Soylent.
And food is a major part of the problem: livestock cause almost fifteen per cent of all greenhouse-gas emissions. In California, which is suffering from its worst drought in a generation, about eighty per cent of all water goes toward agriculture.
Mass production of food causes for large amounts of supplies needed to be used thus impacting prices substantially.
The notion that we can nourish ourselves with something purer and more effective than food has long been part of our collective fantasy life.
I'm not a particular diverse eater and have always thought of other alternatives to foods such has supplements and vitamins.
It was sleeker, faster, more efficient. And the population of online daters in Portland seemed to have tripled. He’d never imagined that so many single people were out there.
reinforced (like in the other articles) that this industry is growing
“It was fairly incredible,” Jacob remembers. “I’m an average-looking guy. All of a sudden I was going out with one or two very pretty, ambitious women a week. At first I just thought it was some kind of weird lucky streak.
author gives specific results from people who have used the sites
Physically, I am a woman, but my gender doesn’t dominate my thoughts or passions every waking moment.
Someone's entire identity shouldn't be determined based off of their gender. People should be looked at equally regardless of their sex.
After a while, the same words and dogmatic phrases don’t sound like they are coming from real people, so our eyes and ears can easily start tuning them out. When we become numb to the message we get lazy, and when we use other people’s words over and over, we become uninspired and lose the spark and urgency we had in the first place.
Instead of solely relying on academic writings regarding feminism, ordinary people should be encouraged to join the conversation. Often, these people have more first-hand experience with the topic and can offer a passion that would otherwise be lost. The emphasis on political correctness within the United States can sometimes exclude the emotions attached to a topic.
I want all of us to be able to drown in the varieties of humans.
When we embrace each other's differences and learn from one another's experiences, our society becomes so much more interesting, enlightening, and peaceful.
I already FEEL equal, so what’s the fucking hold up?
Women and men are not different in what they are capable of doing and shouldn't be treated differently in the workforce, music industry, or by society in general. If men and women ARE equal, then why aren't we given equal rights?
Not only did they ruin the land and their health, they also ruined their health.
We shudder deliciously in the face of incomprehensible forces, in the wake of events that insurance companies call "acts of God." But this was an act of Man, which made it a palpable evil: madness made visible in flame.
Man can cause as much damage as nature at it's worst.
Kuwait, on this day in July, would lose about $100 million worth of oil.
They're hurting themselves just to hurt their enemies.
It was close to the road, and the western plume was directed at passing vehicles like a pyromaniac's wet dream.
Great imagery.
This perfectly defines this, considering we are the only creatures on the planet that would do something like this it's madness.
Is this to say that only humans can act out of hatred and evil tendencies?
They didn't have any other reason to do this than to be spiteful of the people they were losing to.
Why doesn’t passionate love last? How is it possible to see a person as beautiful on Monday, and 364 days later, on another Monday, to see that beauty as bland?
Our feelings are constantly changing every single day and sometimes we may not have control over our own feelings
Let me be clear: I still love my husband. There is no man I desire more. But it’s hard to sustain romance in the crumb-filled quotidian that has become our lives.
It is possible to be in love with the idea of someone but it does not men that you are necessarily in love with them
the girl whose father broke her fingers as a form of discipline
The point of my rant-like annotations have been because this article seemed to start off claiming that it was society's fault for children ending up drug dealers. Then the argument switched to discipline. Maybe I haven't read far enough into it. Hopefully it comes to the conclusion that something in parenting has to change. Because children are only products of their environment. The environment that they have to grow up in, which falls under the responsibility of the parents is then responsible for their reactions, ultimately blaming the parents for the BS that their kids have to go through. This is NOT me saying "blame the parents" not matter what. There are many exceptions. However, this essay seems to be swaying to saying that tough love is a positive thing.
Two days after he graduated from Walton, Curt went to his doctor with stomach cramps. The doctors initially diagnosed an ulcer and then changed their minds. To this day, as Curt prepares to go to college, they can’t figure out the source of the problem.
This story of the 2 boys in high school really helps my paper because it talks a lot about how kids have a hard time in high school and what they make of it can change their lives entirely. In my paper i'm going to talk about the different problems with child youth and things that affect a person growing up. These stories really help shine light on the problems that kids have and how we need to make changes because not only are we losing lives, but passing on bad traits to the next generation.
‘OK, young man, here it is: This is your life.’
Exactly what I meant. Let them have the respect and have respect of an adult along with partial control of their life. Then they get to experience what happens in real life. Let them experience consequences of their actions without completely turning your back on them.
Predictably, the children often rebel against the challenge to their authority, and the parent has to call in other ToughLove parents for a show of force.
Show of force is key here. Force. Not respect. Instead of beating someone up, forcing them to take responsibility for their actions, you have to show them the respect of an adult and maybe they'll like it and strive for what they once had once they throw it away. In order to teach something, you need to show them what it's like. Not tell them what its like, and expect them to understand.
Parents have to give their children a role,”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9BEsJPGTYI This video is of a child who has no respect for his mother. As she tries to control him she clearly needs help. She goes on Dr. Phil and still the child does not care and slaps his mother. In our world today people don't think that children can do this to the parents but it's almost becoming a normal thing in families because so many divorces and single parents are taking care of their children.
gets at the fundamental difference between how we behave in ''hot'' states (those of anxiety, courage, fear, drug craving, sexual excitation and the like) and ''cold'' states of rational calm. This empathy gap in thought and behavior -- we cannot seem to predict how we will behave in a hot state when we are in a cold state -- affects happiness in an important but somewhat less consistent way than the impact bias.
Strong emotions can alter our decision-making skills.
We're studying the thing that all human action is directed toward.''
All humans have the goal of happiness.
'You can't always get what you want,' '' Gilbert adds. ''I don't think that's the problem. The problem is you can't always know what you want.''
I agree that sometimes we are so overwhelmed by our choices that we don't actually know what we want.
So for the average person, the obstacle between them and happiness is actually getting the futures that they desire. But what our research shows -- not just ours, but Loewenstein's and Kahneman's -- is that the real problem is figuring out which of those futures is going to have the high payoff and is really going to make you happy.
This relates to my life currently, do I go to my dream school and graduate with a lot of debt or go to a smaller school that is not as well known? Which will have the greater payoff in the long-run?
bad events proved less intense
ex. the pain of a flu shot is expected worse than it actually is
maximizing our utility,
utility = "represents satisfaction experienced by the consumer of a good"
almost all actions -- the decision to buy jewelry, have kids, buy the big house or work exhaustively for a fatter paycheck -- are based on our predictions of the emotional consequences of these events.
I agree that most decisions are based on emotions.
how do we predict what will make us happy or unhappy -- and then how do we feel after the actual experience?
Sometimes people overestimate the amount of happiness that an object or experience will give.
of his wife one day looking at him and thinking, “Oh boy, the paunchy fart machine wants to bone
That's crazy to think that a married man is ashamed to fart in front of his wife. When your married you should be extremely comfortable to with one another. Especially coming from a guy this surprises me because every guy I know (regardless boyfriend or not) are not ashamed to fart, in front of anyone.
m.
This is always a strange barrier within relationships. It has been stated that farting in front of your significant other brings one another closer in the relationship. I'm assuming this article will state so.
farting is “the second big hurdle in a relationship,” right after “I love you.”
Funny way of looking at such a small thing. Why is farting such a big deal?
Goodnight, my little farting Nora.
When you choose to open up to your significant other, meaning farting in front of them, some may end up being turned on or become even more sexually attracted to you.
we really want is to be loved for our flaws, and our farts
Some couples can love the flaws of each other, but some times farts are just too much for the other person. So, we turn to turning on the water while going to the bathroom or having the other person cover their ears.
relationships are best measured by farting.
When you are able to fart in front of your significant other, it is a sign of true love.
The circularity here is intriguing: an absence of real-world community fuels a schematic, inorganic online ritual that spawns a network of online friendships that ultimately pushes back out into the real world.
brief summary of what takes place in the online dating process
was her first online date; they met for lunch and never really parted.
author gives examples of positive outcomes
I check Greg's Friendster page compulsively
addictive in nature, the technology and ease of online dating
Those disillusioned with online dating will tell you that its promise of a no-muss relationship attracts people with intimacy and commitment problems
author giving the other side to the argument
Employers have relied not just on being able to pay women less, but on specific gendered skills and qualities that they expected from female workers.
Not only are employers relying on the fact that they can pay their female workers less, but they are also relying on certain "feminine" characteristics that the females possess.
As long as feminists are lauding the ascension of women to boardrooms for equality’s sake and not questioning what happens in those boardrooms, true liberation is a long way off.
Simply earning a traditional "man's job" shouldn't be the sole accomplishment. Women should also question how they're treated at the job, what they're paid, and the benefits they receive. Rather than accepting what they think they can get, it is essential for women to always dig deeper and fight for total equality.
And so we are at this point, where all too many feminists see “saving” sex workers as an appropriately feminist activity but not walking a picket line with striking teachers or nurses or hotel housekeepers.
Even of those who identify as feminists, many of these women abstain from activist activities. While this shouldn't be requirement of being a feminist, it definitely helps the movement by gaining media attention and the support of others. If more women were confident in themselves and their right to equal treatment, change would happen much faster.
I enjoyed shooting a pig a whole lot more than I ever thought I should have.
He's struggling with the morality of killing for food
It's weird you're this fucked-up about marriage, she says. You grew up in a perfect home.
Growing up in a perfect home does not mean that marriage will be easy for you.
banal
boring or lacks originality
and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?"
This is a great example of the overall topic of life. We live in a world with all of these things around us, but do we really understand what they are or why? It's hard to talk about things we don't fully understand.
Then an idea occurs to me. “I’m hungry,” I say. “Let’s go get some dessert.”
this is me in every single way possible.
you’re not dead yet
here we go again with Shinji's dry humor
Maybe it’s the sake, or the four bottles of beer, but somehow, after my brush with mortality, everything looks fresher, more vivid, a little more alive.
I like this a lot
The fish has been arranged in concentric circles to resemble a chrysanthemum, which, as Shinji happily explains, is the funeral flower of Japan
precursor????
It’s the perfect situation!”
ha ha.
“It’s seasonal, it’s ceremonial, and it’s expensive, so you can impress the girls.”
I like Shinji's comment. It certainly facilitates the situation with his dry humor
“Or maybe Chef Hashimoto has killed them.”
translator got jokes
city authorities incinerate them.
so official
fugu’s eyes can be taken out, since they’re poisonous, too.
I want poisonous eye balls.
cut off, then an incision is made down the back, so that the skin can be peeled away, like a banana’s.
art
aren’t toxic
this explains a lot. When I first read the article title I assumed the article was going to talk about sushi and the risks of eating raw fish.
an extremely lean fish,
do fugu have natural predators? if so, do their toxins have the same effect on other fish who consume fugu?
head of a pin
very potent substance. What is it about the sperm of the fugu that makes it so toxic?
laid beside their open caskets for several days to ensure that they were not being buried alive.
that's hardcore.
Tetrodotoxin
death can occur as early as 20 minutes. basically, the toxin causes paralysis in all parts of your body including the lungs. respiratory arrest occurs and then the inevitable death. (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_29750019.html)
but it might have started when I was very young. What I remember is silence.
It would make sense if he doesn't remember much from his childhood. As mentioned in the article, if his siblings were away and his mother developed agoraphobia and depression, there is nobody to reinforce his childhood memories and no family to tell and share stories with.
I wondered if her memories were so sharp because these were all terrible events, especially compared with my presumably bland early years.
those memories hold strong emotional ties with the mother so of course she wouldn't forget that. (as mentioned earlier in the article)
‘That kind of interaction contributes to the richness of memory over a long period of time,’
Maybe that is why children like to hear and remember stories from their parents or grandparents.
making Jell-O: you mix the stuff up, you put it in a mould, and you put it in the refrigerator to set, but your mould has a tiny hole in it. You just hope your Jell-O – your memory – gets set before it leaks out through that tiny hole.’
That's a great analogy; simple enough to understand a complex process.
What remains controversial, though, is the curveball's prominence in travel ball
take away breaking balls? that's a huge part of the game
"Way to crush, dude!
kid language?
For parents like the Petrees, the challenge is deciding at which point, and to what degree, to commit to a child's baseball career. It's a fundamental question, of course, that can be applied more broadly to all parents who want to see their children thrive
the defying part part of one's career. important note
So long as both sides of the exchange keep deriving benefits, the behaviour floats free of its violent origins.
Behavior has adapted and evolved because of mutual benefits
So, the reason we weep now may well be that our ancestors discussed their differences by hitting each other in the face. Some of us still do, I suppose
This author is great at turning scientific research into a story
it solicits comfort
Again a type of manipulation that we have completely twisted the meaning of
You got me,’ it says. ‘You won a point for cleverness in a mental play fight. You faked me out and then delivered a punch line from an unexpected direction.’
Just, wow. We have turned a natural sign of "you won" and twisted it, but it still has the same connotation.
In laughter, we find a clue to the sheer violence of our ancestors’ social world.
What a weird sentence, you would never think that we could learn about how violent our ancestors were through the strength of our laughs.
The laughter ramps up as you get farther into the bubble-wrap zone and reaches a maximum when you actually make contact.
So the child is unconsciously warning that you have won the "bout"
And evolution should also favour apes that can produce the touché signal when they need to regulate the play fight.
What a convoluted and interesting way of thinking of it.
Why do such different emotional states look so physically similar?
The author is very good at using questions to keep engaging.
Finally we see the origin of the smile: a briefly flashed imitation of a defensive stance.
Wow, a smile is basically reverse psychology. Trying to trick others into thinking they have the advantage
This, by the way, is perhaps the most important point of the story: the primary evolutionary pressure is on the receiver of the signal, not the sender. The story is about how we came to react to smiles
Again an interesting turnaround that keeps me reading
it is to bunch the facial skin upward, further padding the eyes in folds of skin. The ears flap back against the skull, protecting them from injury. The head pulls down and the shoulders pull up to protect the vulnerable throat and jugular.
Just shows how every species is built for survival
If it’s flashed subtly, it might be mostly limited to the face. An extreme version, however, looks an awful lot like a whole-body protective stance
Just shows how much species have evolved, not just humans. An expression of anger and protection now represents submission and happiness.
This zone is not fixed in size: if you’re nervous, it grows; if you’re relaxed, it shrinks. It also depends on your cultural upbringing.
Nature vs. Nurture
In a crowd, they usually don’t go skin to skin. They step and shift to maintain an orderly minimum spacing
Just amazing how useful and complex these automatic and unlearned behaviors are.
When you puff air on a monkey’s face, why is its expression so uncannily like a human smile? Why does laughter involve the same components as a defensive stance? For a while this lurking similarity nagged at us. A deeper relationship must be hiding in the data
A great transition, from an interesting story about reflexes to our basic human body language.
Collectively, they created a virtual safety zone, like a massive layer of bubble-wrap around the body.
How does our body sense something in these zones, is it on the atomic level or is it air pressure?
A typical neuron might become active, clicking like a Geiger counter when an object loomed towards the left cheek. The same neuron would respond to a touch on the left cheek, or to a sound made near it. When we ran tests in the dark, the neuron would become furiously active if the head moved in a way to take the left cheek towards the remembered location of an object: the neuron was ‘warning’ the rest of the brain that a collision was about to occur at a particular spot on the body.
This is awesome, our body has it's own autonomic spatial awareness
We would have to find the ox head in the letter A.I think we can do that.
Includes the reader in the text to promote more engagement
Why do we expose our teeth to express friendliness? Why do we leak lubricant from our eyes to communicate a need for help? Why do we laugh?
Try to get the reader thinking about this abstract concept, to narrow it down.
asically
Many young kids are exposed to things now since the internet is pretty much available on every piece of technology with a screen. It's making kids want to mature quicker than they should.
baseball offers a hundred openings for pressure’s effects
choking= suffering a decrement under pressure common in athletes
putting room
more golf? connect to the Gladwell article
choking must rise from what neuroscientists like to call mechanisms — that is, systematic, causal chains of brain activity.
choking stems from mechanisms
I was just 15 when I imbibed this sobering information — old enough to understand it but young enough to decide to discard it.
I can definitely see the purpose of this phrase: The author knew what she had to do to keep the raccoon safe, but with the love and trust that she developed from this animal, she didn't want to lose her friend.
We adore our pets not because they love us, but because they prove to us, day after day after day, that we love them with a purity not possible in human-to-human encounters. Our animals prove to us how capacious the human heart can be, and in doing so they give us a great gift.
This love that we have for animals is priceless and cannot be compared to another type of love. This love is innocent, kind, and pure, and animals are vital to a person's life.
Amelia, in other words, was not following me because she loved me; she followed me because some dumb drive urged her to do so, the drive itself as wild as wings or water.
That is interesting, I've never thought of that before.
cathect
Cathect means to invest with mental or emotional energy.
capacious
Capacious means having a lot of space.
wax
This paragraph reminds me of the movie Annie; Annie received no luxuries, gifts, or love at the orphanage, and when the time came for her to visit Oliver Warbucks, she could enjoy all of the desires of her heart.
an animal pulled from a parallel universe, living proof that two separate spheres could happily intersect.
I am in complete awe by the complexity and creativity of the author's diction; this phrase leaves a large impact in my life because I agree that all people and animals in this world should be able to relate with one another despite their differences and personal beliefs.
I began to move, and she began to follow me with what seemed like total faith, scampering after me as I made my way down the stairs, at my heels as I traveled towards the kitchen.
I love the way she describes the behavior of her raccoon. Despite the fact that the raccoon barely knows her, she follows her owner with complete faith and obedience. This reminds me of when my dog Riley would always follow me around the house.
I wouldn’t go back there for $10 million
Kids today want to grow up so fast but little do they know these really are the "golden years".
I actually love this quote.
am generally called a feminist when I have the nerve to suggest that the misogyny deeply embedded in our culture is a real problem, requiring relentless vigilance
"when i have the nerve" as if it's a bad thing to be a feminist.
I’m not the only outspoken woman who shies away from the feminist label, who fears the consequences of accepting the label.
implies that being a feminist is bad. it isn't.
Really, though, I’m a woman in her thirties, struggling to accept herself.
accepts herself for who she is
I like the facts that are interesting and very helpful to the authors point of happiness
dilemma as a question of faith
This also seems to poke at the possible answer to another big question: what is the point of human existence?
palpably
Means simple or perceived.
ertion
I don't believe that this word has a definition, but that it was meant to be a feeling or emotion.
transparently full of emotion
This part gives insight to the meaning of the story.
"So we turn it on," Mayberg told me later, "and all of a sudden she says to me, 'It's very strange,' she says, 'I know you've been with me in the operating room this whole time. I know you care about me. But it's not that. I don't know what you just did. But I'm looking at you, and it's like I just feel suddenly more connected to you.' " Mayberg, stunned, signaled with her hand to the others, out of Deanna's view, to turn the stimulator off. "And they turn it off," Mayberg said, "and she goes: 'God, it's just so odd. You just went away again. I guess it wasn't really anything.'
Wow, this part is so shock and awe. So odd for her that her depression could be turned on and off in this scenario.
"These soldiers get sent away for six months, they come back and all they want to do is return to their old home. But their old home isn't there, because everybody's changed. It takes some tough rearranging sometimes."
This makes me think about what it is like to be mentally ill and to have it change your life so drastically.
We might even stop indulging the romantic notion of depression as intrinsic to one's identity.
I think it is important to recognized that depression is a mental illness, and not just apart of identity to agree with the article.
Most people think of depression as a deficit state," Mayberg says. "You're low, you're negative. But in fact, talk to a depressed person, and you have this bizarre combination of numbness and what William James called 'an active anguish.' 'A sort of psychical neuralgia,'
This is quite important for understanding depression
I think it is important to recognized that depression is a mental illness, and not just apart of identity to agree with the article.
Only when the player does something that isn’t mandated by the system can she be said to be playing.
In other words, in order to have fun playing video games, players have to do what is not required of them by the game.
breaking the game — seeing where its limits of verisimilitude are drawn. Since my team manager never commented on my outrageously dangerous behaviour
Another separation of jobs and video games is that there isn't as major of a consequence if a job isn't done correctly.
Some jobs don't allow players to be creative. This separates jobs from games
This proves an earlier point that people escape to games only to do things similar to work.
Follow the rules, achieve results, and you are rewarded with bits of symbolic currency
Similar to a job.
egocentricity,
big words.... nice!
More than 70 percent of those who scored high on the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale correctly picked out the handkerchief-smuggling associate, compared with just 30 percent of the low scorers. Zeroing in on weakness may well be part of a serial killer's tool kit. But it may also come in handy at the airport.
i too like this experiment
contrary to popular belief, they are not necessarily violent
i thought all psychopaths were violent.. crazy
parallel universe
too bad that's not real
Emotion is entropy—and seriously bad for business
i like and dislike this
so they took a deep breath, prayed and threw a Hail Mary pass: they hired a pregnant woman.
Funny way to set this up
stop people from doing.
It should be a prescription drug, that way not anyone could have it
What if people used it simply because they didn't want to fixate over ex-girlfriends
There would have to be some extent to whether the drug could be used. Not simple reasons.
It's impossible to justify why a nine-year-old who watched his parents get murdered needs to remember precisely what that looked (and felt) like; I'd feed that theoretical kid a cereal bowl of propranolol. But the problem (of course) is that our society is traditionally terrible at judicious drug use
There should be an exception for cases like these. Nobody should remember a sight like that with vivid images.
Adrenaline makes us remember things.
From the examples above, this makes a lot of sense. I never thought of it that way.
"In the 19th centurury, to be raped was to be shamed, forever. In the late 20th century, to be a virgin was to be shamed. And so I lied, to save my skin." This quote stood out to me the most because I completely agree with it, girls now are in a rush to be intimate with someone to in a way show off. Also many girls lie about having been with someone because they are either ashamed or believe they will be judged.
"I am miserable about our lack of a sex life.." Should a person marry someone when their sex life isn't great? Or should sex be great all the time when it's done with the person you've fallen in love with?
"Therefore, when my fiance asked me if i was "having sex" with someone.." Even though she wasn't fully having sex with Christian is it still what she says as both living "highly honest" when stating that they were not having sex. She says they did everything else so she should have told her fiance.
They’re women for whom work is not a “lifestyle choice” but a necessity—a financial one
Definitely agree with this
Here’s my inconvenient truth: they aren’t wrong.
Biased toward climate change but at least the author is showing both sides of the argument rather than just stating why he is right and they're wrong.
when you challenge a person’s position on an issue core to his or her identity, facts and arguments are seen as little more than further attacks, easily deflected.
I think this is a good point that doesn't just apply very well to the topic of climate change, but also certain beliefs that people grow up believing so they have this mindset of anything anyone says against what believe in is wrong.
view mental leisure as important, purposeful work -- work that relies on a powerful and far-flung network of brain cells firing in unison.
The idea of this is interesting. It could be a strong point in defending the idea of how the brain works with procrastination.
Image by Devin Rochford.
The gif is just another thing that makes this more humorous and awesome
Like you would with a man.
I really agree and like how she lists these "steps", making it a point to show that women should be treated just like a man would be
There was much metacarpal cracking and muted whimpering
The language and word use is pretty funny, sarcasm in this article seems very prominent
As we all know, men are complete fucking idiots who roll around moaning like flipped-over turtles the second a woman speaks to them in an egalitarian, nonsexual context
She's trying to use humor to address a very real problem that is occurring between men and women
The entire set up of this essay is great. its giving you background information that you will later use to interpretations of success and failure and what causes this. The background and settings to which a student grows up in can have an affect on these success/failure rates
from whether to steal bases to which relief pitchers to use and when, was decided in advance by the G.M.
each decision can make the difference of winning and losing, that's why it has to be well thought and knowing what's best and who's specialized enough really plays a role in this game