Anonymity and Deindividuation
<I>aka</I> The Lucifer Effect—an excerpt from Philip Zimbardo's new book.
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The secret life of the F word. Now that you know what it's about, you know not to click the link if that sort of thing offends you. Me? I live in Brooklyn—we use it because "uh" sounds so inexpressive.
Levitin & Byrne, Together
Former Talking Heads frontman and the author of <I>This Is Your Brain On Music</I> discuss Music, language, and memory.
Clap Happy
<I>The OC Register</I>'s Timothy Morgan writes about the increasing tendency of classical audiences to applaud between movements. His response? "I don't care."
Argentina on Two Steaks a Day
"The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day."
BOHICA
Stephen Ambrose gently suggested that the ingenuity of the American soldier was a contributing factor in the Allied victory in WWII, pointing to the GI-engineered solutions to, say, Normandy's hedgerows as an example. That creative spirit is illustrated linguistically, too, as shown in the linked list of acronyms and expressions.
Rubber Duckie, I Track You
Sitting in Hong Kong harbor one afternoon, I watched container ship after container ship set sail across the Pacific, piled unbelievably high with cargo modules. I asked my host, "How can that be stable?"
Majoring In Marketing with Minors in Music and Psychology
Things are coming together and we're moving right along. We're gearing up for <a href="http://www.homeentertainment-expo.com/">the Home Entertainment Show</a> and preparing for all the spring and summer fun.
Get Medieval
Timewise, that is.
Does Rosslyn Chapel Have a Music Code?
That's what Tommy and Stuart Mitchell think. They claim the 15<SUP>th</SUP> century chapel's ornately carved patterns and cubes contain a musical sequence, concealed "because knowledge of harmonics may have been seen as dangerous, even heretical, by 15th Century church authorities."