The hypothesis postulates that a particular language’s nature influences the habitual thought of its speakers: that different language patterns yield different patterns of thought. This idea challenges the possibility of perfectly representing the world with language, because it implies that the mechanisms of any language condition the thoughts of its speaker community.
From Wikipedia
Potentially Universal Mechanism Of Aging Identified
Sirtuin genes have two functions: repair damaged DNA and regulate gene activity in cells. As DNA damage accumulated over time, however, the sirtuin became too distracted to properly regulate gene activity, and as a result, characteristics of aging set in.
“For ten years, this entire phenomenon in yeast was considered to be relevant only to yeast,” says Sinclair. “But we decided to test of this same process occurs in mammals.”
From Science Daily
Philip K. Verleger, Jr. offers a credible explanation for a 2008 phenomenon.
Explaining the 2008 Crude Oil Price Rise (PDF)
“Today, however, the world sits on the verge of recession because very few people in responsible positions comprehend the market. Furthermore, the advice of knowledgeable people who might counsel policymakers is dismissed out of hand.”
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
You are what you love, not what loves you. That’s something I figured out a long time ago.
Charlie Kaufman from Adaptation
House on Hydraulic Legs (video)
“It’s interesting how artists - once they have an idea like this - they have to almost become engineers to make it happen.”
From Scientific American.
Let our scars fall in love.
Galway Kinnel
Rabble Rouser, Folklorist and Journalist who exposed the KKK using….Superman.