February 2010
The Lionshare →
A VODO DOUBLE BILL: ‘THE LIONSHARE’ & ‘Legacy’
Drama (2009) 66 mins, Sci-fi (2008) 3 mins
Boy meets girl on OkCupid. In the course of trying to download Ghostbusters, girl introduces boy to (fictitious) social file-sharing site, The Lionshare. Boy digs site, but turns out girl does not dig boy that much. Boy mopes around the city, not for a moment imagining that The...
Anyone everything →
bobulate:
Media projects, many of them visual experiments, from the magnificent Radio Lab. Just a selection:
Moments (“How would you define a moment?”) Parabolas (“It all started with a pendulum.”) Stoop Sitting (“I’m not busy, I’m just relaxing.”) Strawberries (“He who is possessed by possessions is surely possessed.”)
Collective wisdom of everyday actions in audio, visual, and written format...
Try to be anything else →
bobulate:
I keep thinking about Jessica’s one thing:
The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.
And this from Lorrie Moore on how to become a writer:
First, try to be something, anything, else. A movie star/astronaut. A movie star/missionary. A movie star/kindergarten teacher. President of the World. Fail miserably. It is best if...
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“Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin (The Lathe of Heaven) (via quote-book)
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums) (via quote-book)
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“Loneliness is a mirror which does not lie.”
– Ricardo Arjona (via herbeatingheart) (via quote-book)
More or less →
bobulate:
New research shows that more warnings cause greater harm when it comes to prescription labels:
Half of adults misunderstand common standard drug warnings on prescription labels, putting them at risk for using the medicine incorrectly or even having a life-threatening event. …. “The more warnings you put on a label, the more you distract [patients] from essential instructions and...
The social components of self-control →
psychotherapy:
For the most part, self-control is seen as an individual trait, a measure of personal discipline. If you lack self-control, then it’s your own fault, a character flaw built into the brain.
However, according to a new study by Michelle vanDellen, a psychologist at the University of Georgia, self-control contains a large social component; the ability to resist temptation is...
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“The universe is under no obligation to make sense, but scientists are.”
– Carl Sagan (via ipezaro) (via cjernigan) (via macmankev) (via proofmathisbeautiful)
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“I love it. I love it. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. The...”
– RuPaul on plastic surgery in W.
My love for RuPaul grows daily. And let’s not forget this video dj twinkbear just sent me, in which she talks about how she loves riding bikes.
(via booksarebetterthanboys)
The radio brain →
bobulate:
On how the brain “tunes in” to one idea:
If you think of the example of the jammed radio, the way to hear what you want out of the messy signals would be to listen really hard for the latest news while trying to filter out the unwanted music. The hippocampus does this more efficiently. It simply tunes in to the right frequency to get the station it wants. As the cells tune into the...
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“The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”
– mark twain (via quellequaintrelle)
Mirror mirror →
bobulate:
When we meet people, whether we know them or not, their body language — implicit and explicit — can tell us more than we realize: We mirror each other’s body language as a way of bonding, being accepted and creating rapport, but we are usually oblivious to the fact that we are doing it. In ancient times, mirroring was also a social device which helped our ancestors fit in successfully...
Neuroskeptic: A "Severe" Warning for Psychiatry →
psychotherapy:
A really great write-up that follows up with some legitimate questions about the study/article I posted a few minutes ago from Newsweek…
Imagine there was a nasty disease that affected 1 in 100 people. And imagine that someone invented a drug which treated it reasonably well. Good work, surely.
Now imagine that, for some reason, people decided that 10% of the population need to...
January 2010
