Random links
- Obama Conditioned Us to Expect Photo Ops. He Can’t Change Our Expectations When It Suits Him.
- Ah ... politics "The issue is not his unwillingness to engage in this particular form of presidential art. He’s making a choice: when a photo-op isn’t to his advantage, he elevates avoiding it to a high-minded ideal. The problem for the president, like all presidents, is that he thinks he has a say in the argument over whether a photo op is meaningful or not. He doesn’t. Part of the fix he’s in is of his own making."
- Another Reason The Hunger Games Is Awesome: Katniss Is Taller Than Peeta
- "According to research and media accounts, it’s women who are more concerned about enforcing the 'male-taller norm.' A 2008 study of 382 ... found that 23 percent of straight men said they wouldn't mind being the shorter party in a relationship. Only 4 percent of women surveyed said they’d be OK as the taller one. ... In 2004, eHarmony creator Neil Clark Warren told the Los Angeles Times that early on, so many of his online matchmaking service’s female clients had complained about being matched with men shorter than them that the company created a rule: Only match women with taller men." I wonder if eHarmony still has such a rule. That same preference remains strong.
- Stanford study finds walking improves creativity
- "While the study showed that walking benefited creative brainstorming, it did not have a positive effect on the kind of focused thinking required for single, correct answers."
- When 'Driver' Goes the Way of 'Computer'
- "A driver could come to mean the machine that drives just as a computer is a machine that computes. If that seems implausible, consider that the meaning of “a computer” as a person (usually a woman) who computed was entirely established for a long time before ENIAC."