A New Theory of Distraction “At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction,” the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, in 1839. Those were the days. Browning is still right, of course: ask any reader of Wikipedia or Urban Dictionary. She sounds anachronistic only because no modern person needs advice about how to be distracted. Like typing, Googling, and driving, distraction is now a universal competency. We’re all experts. Still, for all our expertise, distraction retains an aura of mystery. Another source of confusion is distraction’s apparent growth. The second big theory is spiritual—it’s that we’re distracted because our souls are troubled. A version of that mutual-reinforcement theory is more or less what Matthew Crawford proposes in his new book, “The World Beyond Your Head: Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). “The World Beyond Your Head” is insightful and, in parts, convincing.
Business-Class FREE web hosting at .Biz.nf - PHP, MySQL, No Ads The Moral Bucket List Photo ABOUT once a month I run across a person who radiates an inner light. These people can be in any walk of life. They seem deeply good. They listen well. When I meet such a person it brightens my whole day. A few years ago I realized that I wanted to be a bit more like those people. It occurred to me that there were two sets of virtues, the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues. We all know that the eulogy virtues are more important than the résumé ones. But if you live for external achievement, years pass and the deepest parts of you go unexplored and unstructured. So a few years ago I set out to discover how those deeply good people got that way. I came to the conclusion that wonderful people are made, not born — that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments. THE HUMILITY SHIFT We live in the culture of the Big Me. SELF-DEFEAT External success is achieved through competition with others.
Keimelion - revisão de textos: dicas muito úteis Autores e orientadores constroem e reconstroem sentidos a partir de diferentes exercícios de escrita que se realizam em gêneros específicos do domínio discursivo compreendido por monografias, dissertações, teses, artigos, resenhas, resumos. A cada fase da evolução do texto da dissertação o autor o submete ao orientador, a algum colega ou leitor crítico, ou o próprio autor relê sua produção e se estabelecem os objetivos, critérios e restrições para a tarefa de reescrita; o autor passa à avaliação de seu texto-rascunho. Revisão é procedimento posterior e envolve outro interventor no processo de produção do texto. O subprocesso de avaliação da produção é o momento da reescrita em que o autor ou seu orientador lê seu texto com três objetivos: compreender, avaliar e definir problemas. A leitura avaliativa é enfatizada, pois permite ao autor, na reescrita, de acordo com o problema representado no rascunho, determinar o procedimento na tarefa de reescrever. A estratégia de ignorar
A color-coded map of the world’s most and least emotional countries By Max Fisher November 28, 2012 A map of the world's countries by most and least emotional. Click to enlarge. (Max Fisher) Since 2009, the Gallup polling firm has surveyed people in 150 countries and territories on, among other things, their daily emotional experience. Gallup has tallied up the average "yes" responses from respondents in almost every country on Earth. Singapore is the least emotional country in the world. The Philippines is the world's most emotional country. Post-Soviet countries are consistently among the most stoic. People in the Americas are just exuberant. English- and Spanish-speaking societies tend to be highly emotional and happy. Africans are generally stoic, with some significant exceptions. The Middle East is not happy. What am I missing?
Peixe Babel - Não Entre em Pânico De Não Entre em Pânico O peixe-babel é pequeno, amarelo e semelhante a uma sanguessuga, e é provavelmente a criatura mais estranha em todo o Universo. Alimenta-se de energia mental, não daquele que o hospeda, mas das criaturas ao redor dele. Absorve todas as freqüências mentais inconscientes desta energia mental e se alimenta delas, e depois expele na mente de seu hospedeiro uma matriz telepática formada pela combinação das freqüências mentais conscientes com os impulsos nervosos captados dos centros cerebrais responsáveis pela fala do cérebro que os emitiu. Na prática, o efeito disto é o seguinte: se você introduz no ouvido um peixe-babel, você compreende imediatamente tudo o que lhe for dito em qualquer língua. Ora, seria uma coincidência tão absurdamente improvável que um ser tão estonteantemente útil viesse a surgir por acaso, por meio da evolução das espécies, que alguns pensadores vêem no peixe-babel a prova definitiva da inexistência de Deus.
25 Greatest Austin Bands of All Time | Arts+Labor Magazine First a word about the elephant not in this room. I love the late Doug Sahm, the musician who best epitomized the Austin scene because he grew up in clubs and could play it all, but you won’t find his name in this list because his two greatest bands–the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados–were based in San Antonio, not Austin. This is a ranking of bands, not solo artists and the musicians who backed them up, so although Sahm, guitar whiz Eric Johnson, songwriter Butch Hancock, and other true Austin trailblazers fronted some terrific groups, none made this 25-band salute. When you think about the thousands of bands that have made Austin home since the 1940s, a lot of very good groups did not make the list. While ranking these bands, innovation was an important consideration, as was national prominence. It’s different here when it comes to music. So there was a lot to mull. Great bands are the best thing about Austin and lousy bands are down there with traffic. 1. 3. “Number 3? 4. 5.
justfortheloveofit.org | Promoting Skillsharing | Learn Skills, share tools, save money and make great new friends Groundbreaking Idea Of Life's Origin Why does life exist? Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning and a colossal stroke of luck. But if a provocative new theory is correct, luck may have little to do with it. Instead, according to the physicist proposing the idea, the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.” From the standpoint of physics, there is one essential difference between living things and inanimate clumps of carbon atoms: The former tend to be much better at capturing energy from their environment and dissipating that energy as heat. Kristian Peters Cells from the moss Plagiomnium affine with visible chloroplasts, organelles that conduct photosynthesis by capturing sunlight. “You start with a random clump of atoms, and if you shine light on it for long enough, it should not be so surprising that you get a plant,” England said. England’s theoretical results are generally considered valid.
Histórias de quem largou o emprego pra viver do que gosta. | Jardim do Mundo Você teria coragem de arriscar tudo para seguir os seus sonhos? Trabalhar 8 horas por dia em um escritório, bater cartão, enfrentar o trânsito, cumprir metas, ter um chefe, ou dois, ou três. O preço do salário é alto. Muita gente vive muito bem neste estilo de vida, mas outras pessoas não conseguem se adaptar à caixa do mercado, e colocam na balança a estabilidade e a aventura, a grana fixa e a sazonalidade, a promoção de cargos e a liberdade autônoma. O que pesa mais? O projeto Continue curioso é uma web série sobre pessoas que não se adaptaram ao estilo de vida convencional do mercado e largaram tudo em direção ao desconhecido. É arriscado? Jaque Barbosa e Eme Viegas Um som pode revelar muitas coisas. não existe melhor exemplo do que a natureza. seu barulho pode mostrar serenidade como também inquietude. é um lembrete de que não estamos no controle quando confrontados com uma força maior. somos obrigados a escutar um chamado. jaque barbosa e eme viegas estavam dispostos a ouvir.
The Brain on Architecture Looking at buildings designed for purposes of contemplation—like museums, churches, and libraries—may have positive measurable effects on mental state. At a particular moment during every tour of Georgetown’s campus, it becomes necessary for the student guide to acknowledge the singular blight in an otherwise idyllic environment. “Lauinger Library was designed to be a modern abstraction of Healy Hall”: a sentence that inevitably trails off with an apologetic shrug, inviting the crowd to arrive at their own conclusions about how well it turned out. Much of the student population would likely agree that the library’s menacing figure on the quad is nothing short of soul-crushing. I spoke with Dr. The nonprofit research center … interweaves private and public spaces with a strikingly formal, inward-looking plan that echoes the format of a medieval cloister.
50 Animated Gifs for Every Situation Ever If a picture is worth a thousand words, then an animated gif must be worth some kind of number I can’t even begin to comprehend. If you’ve ever found yourself browsing the Internet and felt compelled to respond with a witty reply, only to come up: wow, mind. blown., golf clap, etc. Then these animated gifs are for you! With the simple copy and paste of one of the images below you can make your feelings resonate while bathing in the adulation of Internet pundits the world over. This is the Sifter’s seventh installment of the Awesome Animated Gif Series. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. If you enjoyed this post, the Sifter highly recommends: Paid Content:Paid Content:Paid Content:Paid Content:Paid Content:
First Official Climate Change Refugees Evacuate Their Island Homes for Good Update: Please note that this story is from 2009. For more recent news & articles, follow us on Facebook. Thank you! The day has finally come, and a critical landmark in the saga of global climate change is occurring as we speak—and hardly anyone has noticed. The Carteret Islanders of Papua New Guinea have become the world's first entire community to be displaced by climate change. They're the first official refugees of global warming--and they're packing up their lives to move out of the way of ever-rising waters that threaten to overtake their homes and crops. On the Carterets, king tides have washed away their crops and rising sea levels poisoned those that remain with salt. That report comes from the Ecologist, one of only a handful of media outlets to cover the story, and the only one to have a reporter on hand to witness the evacuation. The men climbed silently from the boat and into the shallows.