At least nine. The five we all know about: Sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, were first proposed by Aristotle, but there are now four more which are agreed among scientists to be official senses, these are:
1. Thermoception – the sense of heat (or it’s absence) on our skin,
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Not until my third viewing did I notice that Luc Besson had drained the Hudson and East River for NYC’s appearance in The Fifth Element.
Melissa Stanley went to school for music—or rather, Music Industry. The 26-year-old recalls “taking maybe one physics class in college, and that was it” for her formal science education. After graduation, she became a director of A&R and booking at Jezebel Music, a concert-promotion outfit for unsigned acts in Williamsburg. Then, at the office sometime in 2007, things changed. “One day,” she said, “we just got tired of all of the music that we had on our computers, so I turned on WNYC.” The program on the air was Radiolab.
Where Children Sleep is a project and book by photographer James Mollison.
He traveled the world photographing the rooms (or lack thereof) of children across cultures and social classes. Above is Kaya who lives in Japan.
This whole post is worth reading. For the record, I agree with the entirety of the post.
The problem with these “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” hearings is the problem with the entire country’s discourse about homosexuality: it’s still debated like there are two sides to the issue. Like…
This was my first full year at the helm of Give Me Something To Read, and to mark it, I’ve compiled this list of the best articles and essays I posted through 2010 (limited to those that were actually published in 2010).
Richard has done an amazing job this year editing Instapaper’s sister site, Give Me Something To Read.
This is a great collection of interesting content to load up into Instapaper for your Thanksgiving travels. To make it easier to add them to Instapaper, there’s a handy Read Later button next to each one.
What are you waiting for? Go add some great material to your reading list!
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K. David Harris, linguist and film subject, answers, “what is lost when a language dies?”
When we lose a language, we lose centuries of human thinking about time, seasons, sea creatures, reindeer, edible flowers, mathematics, landscapes, myths, music, the unknown and the everyday. …. Each language is a unique expression of human creativity.
We would be outraged if Notre Dame Cathedral or the Great Pyramid of Giza were demolished to make way for modern buildings. We should be similarly appalled when languages — monuments to human genius far more ancient and complex than anything we have built with our hands — erode.From spoonerisms to malapropisms, “Evolving English,” now at the British Library, recaptures some.
For thousands of years, people have speculated that there’s some correlation between sadness and creativity, so that people who are a little bit miserable (think Van Gogh, or Dylan in 1965, or Virginia Woolf) are also the most innovative. Aristotle was there first, stating in the 4th century B.C.E. “that all men who have attained excellence in philosophy, in poetry, in art and in politics, even Socrates and Plato, had a melancholic habitus; indeed some suffered even from melancholic disease.” This belief was revived during the Renaissance, leading Milton to exclaim, in his poem Il Penseroso: “Hail, divinest melancholy/whose saintly visage is too bright/to hit the sense of human sight.” The romantic poets took the veneration of sadness to its logical extreme, and described suffering as a prerequisite for the literary life. As Keats wrote, “Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
Well, it turns out the cliché might be true after all: Angst has creative perks. That, at least, is the conclusion of Modupe Akinola, a professor at Columbia Business School, in her paper “The Dark Side of Creativity: Biological Vulnerability and Negative Emotions Lead to Greater Artistic Creativity”…
Penguinville is a collection of random thoughts on links, photos, videos and everything else which serendipitously finds its way across the internet. Basically it is the online scrapbook of Roger Penguino. Probable features are anything that challenges and inspires everyone to become better than they were yesterday. Everything has its place, and if interesting and moving, most likely it will be reblogged for good measure.
