The Yiddish Handbook: 40 Words You Should Know. Sheri Jo Fantastic post! I grew up in a town with many, many Jewish people and Yiddish sayings are 2nd nature to me. However, the town I have lived in for the past 15 years has a very small Jewish population in comparison. Consequently, whenever I use a Yiddish term, the response is either hysterical laughter or the “DAHHH… shmendrik” look. Thanks for a great post! Random, Interesting, Amazing Facts - Fun Quizzes and Trivia | Mental Floss. 13 Little-Known Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using. Because sometimes periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses, braces, and ellipses won't do. 1.
Interrobang You probably already know the interrobang, thanks to its excellent moniker and increasing popularity. Though the combination exclamation point and question mark can be replaced by using one of each (You did what!? Or You don't read mental_floss?!) , it's fun to see the single glyph getting a little more love lately. 2. The backward question mark was proposed by Henry Denham in 1580 as an end to a rhetorical question, and was used until the early 1600s. 3. It looks a lot like the percontation point, but the irony mark's location is a bit different, as it is smaller, elevated, and precedes a statement to indicate its intent before it is read. 4.
Among Bazin's proposed new punctuation was the love point, made of two question marks, one mirrored, that share a point. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. The most popular 20 TED Talks, as of now. UPDATED: To see all these talks at one click, check out our updated Playlist: The 20 Most Popular Talks of All Time. As 2013 draws to a close, TED is deeply humbled to have posted 1600+ talks, each representing an idea worth spreading. So which ideas have had the most widespread impact?
Below, a look at the 20 most-watched talks as of December 2013. These viewership numbers include all the platforms we track: TED.com, YouTube, iTunes, embed and download, Hulu and more. Some fascinating things to notice on this list, if you’d like to compare and contrast it to the most popular talks in 2012, and to the list we shared back in 2011: Amy Cuddy, Susan Cain, David Blaine and Pamela Meyer are all newcomers to the list, with Cuddy’s talk storming to spot #5 thanks to you sharing it. Meanwhile, Brene Brown’s talk has doubled in its number of views since 2012, with Simon Sinek and Mary Roach’s talks coming close to that line. Harvard Gazette. Home | The Creativity Post. Sparring Mind. How to disappear on the internet (Infographic) Sleep: The Real Key to a Long-Term, Loving Relationship?
It is one of the most common struggles that couples face: Over the life of a relationship, partners can lose a sense of appreciation for each other. Holding on to a sense of gratitude for each other is one of the hallmarks of couples who stay content in their relationships over the course of many years. On the other hand, loss of gratitude and appreciation between partners can jeopardize a relationship’s long-term success. A new study suggests that poor sleep may contribute to a lack of appreciation between romantic partners. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley conducted a multi-part study to examine how sleep may affect people’s feelings of gratitude, and their ability to value and appreciate romantic partners. The study was presented at the recent annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. It included more than 60 heterosexual couples between ages 18 and 56.
The last finding is particularly interesting. Sweet Dreams, Michael J. Sleep Calculator. Today I Found Out. Mindzette – Life Hacking. Daily Infographic. News-Hound.