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Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it. http://www.cracked.com/article/127_5-ways-to-hack-your-brain-into-awesomeness/

5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness

The Origin of Words and Names

The English language has developed from an Anglo-Saxon base of common words: household words, parts of the body, common animals, natural elements, most pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions and auxiliary verbs. http://www.krysstal.com/wordname.html

15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will | Music | Inventory

1. "I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'" The actual advice here is technically a quote from Kurt Vonnegut 's "good uncle" Alex, but Vonnegut was nice enough to pass it on at speeches and in A Man Without A Country . http://www.avclub.com/articles/15-things-kurt-vonnegut-said-better-than-anyone-el,1858/

Starburst Lacing

Lacing Technique 2 (for 3, 4, 7, 8 pairs of eyelets): 1. http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/starburstlacing.htm

Phrases, Expressions & Sayings

Phrases, Expressions & Sayings What phrase is guaranteed to wake up an audience? http://www.joe-ks.com/phrases/phrases.htm

Everything you ever wanted to know about anarchism

This classic statement of anarchism was written by a diverse group of anarchists in Cardiff around 1980 and it is an interesting historical record of the optimism of mainstream anarchist thought at that time. Terry Phillips There is probably more rubbish talked about anarchism than any other political idea. http://www.radical.org.uk/anarchism/

The Ultimate Rejection Letter

http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/humor/reject.html Herbert A. Millington Chair - Search Committee 412A Clarkson Hall, Whitson University College Hill, MA 34109 Dear Professor Millington, Thank you for your letter of March 16.