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If you met Hanne Blank and her partner on the street, you might have a lot of trouble classifying them.

The invention of the heterosexual - LGBT

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/22/the_invention_of_the_heterosexual/
http://ladylubyanka.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/responsibility-expoundathon/

Responsibility Expoundathon | Lady Lubyanka

© Ron Tandberg I’ve had quite a few problems with people who persistently abdicate and/or misattribute responsibility.

Brains of liberals, conservatives structured differently: study - CTV News

Perhaps the reason that liberals and conservatives have such a hard time seeing eye-to-eye is because when they're compared brain-to-brain, they're built quite differently. A new study that analyzed the brain structures of peoples' brains based on their political affiliations has found some significant differences. Essentially, they found that liberals have more gray matter in a part of the brain associated with understanding complexity, while the conservative brain is bigger in the section related to processing fear. http://www.ctvnews.ca/brains-of-liberals-conservatives-structured-differently-study-1.628445
By Lori Deschene “We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.”

How to Help Someone Who Won’t Help Themselves

http://tinybuddha.com/blog/how-to-help-someone-who-wont-help-themselves/
http://www.letstalksense.com/quotes.html Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Quotes - Let's Talk Sense

Tony Schwartz: The 90-Minute Solution: How Building in Periods of Renewal Can Change Your Work and Your Life (POLL) (VIDEO)

The only way to meet rising demand is to work longer hours, more continuously and stay connected 24/7. Welcome to the crazy credo that many of us now live by, encouraged by the companies that employ us, in a world that's been wildly accelerated by technology.
We all want to do remarkable things, and lead remarkable lives. No one wants to spend the day engaged in mundane productivity in pursuit of a meaningless consumer existence. Certainly not you, right?

Tyler Durden’s 8 Rules of Innovation

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Does Creativity Make You Happy?

One of my favourite writers on creativity is the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
You wouldn’t drink and drive. But would you drink and write? Maybe a glass of wine could be just the thing to get you started on that poem to your sweetheart.

Why Multitasking Doesn’t Work