May 2012
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“We tell stories to continue ourselves. We all think an exception is going to be made in our case, and we’re going to live forever. And being a human is actually arriving at the understanding that that’s not going to be. Story is there to just remind us that it’s just okay.”
—Legendary PBS filmmaker Ken Burns on what makes a great story (via explore-blog)
#ReplacePotterQuoteWithBoobs is trending on Twitter.
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“The creative act requires not only freedom but also this assumption of freedom. If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.”
—Salman Rushdie on censorship, for The New Yorker’s new Page-Turner blog. (via explore-blog)
Is Typing Changing the Way We Think? →
popsci.com
According to a new study exploring the interrelation of language and emotion, if a word consists of letters typed with predominantly the right hand, it is felt to be more positive in meaning; a word typed predominantly with the left hand is associated more with negative emotion.
The study included speakers of English, Spanish, and Dutch, both left- and right-handed, but all users of QWERTY keyboard layouts. Even made-up words like boshe, cheethe, plake, and throog were given value judgments that aligned with how they’d be typed.
» via Popular Science
