(Source: tastefullyoffensive, via kidsoncrack)
May 26, 2012
May 23, 2012
May 20, 2012
"The concept of Dim Mak (Dian Xue) appears as a subset of Kung-fu styles, It is either Dian Mai or Dim Mak which are two Chinese words in two different dialects, meaning Dim “press” and Mak (Artery or Qui channel)"
May 18, 2012
"Ok, so let me get this straight. You’re suggesting that I shut down all my passive income streams, go to work for someone else, get a boss and do what he says even if his decisions are unintelligent, do mediocre work instead of my best, socialize with people who also do mediocre work, work longer hours for less pay, take fewer and shorter vacations and ask permission to take them, pay a great deal more in taxes, and on top of all of that… no sex?"
May 17, 2012
May 15, 2012
May 13, 2012
Jacques Louis David - The Death of Socrates, 1787. Oil on canvas
May 13, 2012
"Alexandre Dumas : Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts."
— Alexandre Dumas quote-Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine,…
May 10, 2012
"The quest to enlarge the span and quality of life is itself a struggle for mastery over nature, which left to itself would have us dying toothless and smelly and malnourished after about three decades."
May 8, 2012
"Upgrade yourself, for Chrissake. Do you think you are going to live forever?"
May 7, 2012
"I will admit that I am a standout in Washington for nonattendance at power breakfasts"
May 3, 2012
"But perhaps the most impressive finding is just how fiction shapes us: mainly for the better, not for the worse. Fiction enhances our ability to understand other people; it promotes a deep morality that cuts across religious and political creeds. More peculiarly, fiction’s happy endings seem to warp our sense of reality. They make us believe in a lie: that the world is more just than it actually is. But believing that lie has important effects for society — and it may even help explain why humans tell stories in the first place."
May 3, 2012
"This research consistently shows that fiction does mold us. The more deeply we are cast under a story’s spell, the more potent its influence. In fact, fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape."
April 30, 2012
"Ostracism is a potent and painful experience. The word comes from a form of serious punishment in ancient Athens and other large cities. The Greeks often expelled those who broke the trust of their society. Shards of pottery, ostracon, were used as voting tokens when a person’s fate was on the ballot. Primates like you survive and thrive because they stick together and form groups, keeping up with those prickly social variables like status and alliance, temperament and skill, political affiliation and sexual disposition prevent ostracism."
April 30, 2012
RSS feed: http://apski.tumblr.com/rss
1 of 33
Next page
-
-
13 Gifts for Graduates from Preschool to PhD
“You’re off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So… get on your way!”... -
Books on my reading list (in no particular order) | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
-
“I have to return some videotapes”
-
Tense : Présent (de l'indicatif)
The French present tense, called le présent or le présent de l’indicatif, is quite similar in usage to the...
-
Tense : Passé Composé
The passé composé is the most common French past tense, often used in conjunction with theimperfect. The passé composé...
-
-
