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intertextual meditation gets me hot

Last Year at Marienbad: An Intertextual Meditationby Thomas BeltzerThomas Beltzer is Assistant Prof. of English, Lane College, Jackson, TN, and has published several reviews in the Gulf Coast Historic...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:44:00 GMT

Why do girls cry?

Headaches Low self-esteem Disillusionment Sudden paralysis Sudden Rains Foolish shallow dreams Snowflakes Weddings Darkness Burning the meatloaf Indecision Gaining weight Realization of ugly truths I...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:23:00 GMT

newspeak and innerdialogue

For a long time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered at best untestable and more often simply wrong. Research in my labs at Stanford University and at MIT has helped reopen this ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:41:00 GMT

Check out this video: T-shirt of Me (2008)

One of my favorite entries at the Wexner Ohio Short Film fest this year, starring my former co-star (and myspace pal) Nataraptor!Check out this video: T-shirt of Me (2008)
Posted by on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:23:00 GMT

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Posted by on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:16:00 GMT

Just let it out

How pushing a thought out of consciousness can bring it back with a vengeance.IT SOMETIMES FEELS like our minds are not on the same team as us. I want to go to sleep, but it wants to keep me awake rer...
Posted by on Tue, 26 May 2009 08:05:00 GMT

The Portugal Experiment

On July 1, 2001, a nationwide law in Portugal took effect that decriminalized all drugs, including cocaine and heroin. Under the new legal framework, all drugs were "decriminalized," not "legalized." ...
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 07:54:00 GMT

Love Diagnosis

One married man, a machine that can read his mind, and a head-to-head matchup between his wife... and Angelina Jolie. Sounds like no good can come of this. Unless, of course, he discovers the meaning ...
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 08:23:00 GMT

Sex illusion

In the Illusion of Sex, two faces are perceived as male and female. However, both faces are actually versions of the same androgynous face. One face was created by increasing the contrast of the andro...
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 08:24:00 GMT

an impartial art critic

Online system rates images by aesthetic qualityTuesday, May 5, 2009University Park, Pa. -- An online photo-rating system developed at Penn State is the first publicly available tool for automatically ...
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 07:58:00 GMT