January 2011
Hedonic treadmill →
bestofwikipedia:
The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the supposed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes. According to this theory, as a person makes more money, expectations and desires rise in tandem, which results in no permanent gain in happiness. (via sleevia)
“I’m too shook up about it to make a comment,” Stan said with a laugh.”
– Stan Lee
on the the death of one member of the Fantastic Four
Lost & Found - Radiolab →
The latest Radiolab is superb, funny, heartfelt and eye-popping. The latest This American Life will eave you shattered.
This is a good week.
“What if there were no hypothetical questions?”
– George Carlin
“The iPad isn’t something you pass around. It’s not really designed to be a...”
– Fraser Speirs, via df
I am not a Google search — Privacy in the online... →
Evan deFillippis:
At what point will we stop exploring, stop discovering, and stop growing because we fear every false step and humiliating indiscretion will be immortalized in a Google search?
“Human sexuality is a strange and amorphous thing, but one thing’s for sure:...”
– The Sexual Cost of Female Success | The Hairpin
Einstein's Field Equation →
Reddit/askscience user extraordinaire RobotRollCall covers Einstein’s theory of general relativity with panache and eloquence :
In the nearly-hundred years that the Einstein field equation has existed, never once has anybody successfully solved it for a system of two rigid bodies.
Think about that for a minute. This is the equation we use to model the entire universe. But in a...
“To an artist, first an audience is a life jacket, then it is a dinner jacket,...”
– clayton cubitt
How You Can Become More Powerful by Literally... →
Just spread yourself everywhere, like a douche :
expansive postures also altered the participants’ hormone levels. […] Expansive postures led individuals to experience elevated testosterone (T) and decreased cortisol (C). This neuroendocrine profile of High T and Low C has been consistently linked to such outcomes as disease resistance and leadership abilities.