Monkey borrows photographer’s camera. These are so cute. http://ow.ly/5x3Qu
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Jackson Pollock, the science of art
At a glance, a painting by Jackson Pollock (1912 – 1956) can look deceptively accidental: just a quick flick of color on a canvas. A quantitative analysis of Pollock’s streams, drips, and coils, by Harvard mathematician L. Mahadevan and collaborators at Boston College, reveals, however, that the artist had to be slow—he had to be […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: library books on U.S. side, checked out Canadian
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House on the Canada-U.S. Border http://ow.ly/5vrsV
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: europe gives pedestrians and transit priority over cars!
ZURICH — While American cities are synchronizing green lights to improve traffic flow and offering apps to help drivers find parking, many European cities are doing the opposite: creating environments openly hostile to cars. The methods vary, but the mission is clear — to make car use expensive and just plain miserable enough to tilt […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Is Shyness an Evolutionary Tactic?
In praise of introverts NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/5qKFy
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Write like a man
another consideration of the dilemma of the female writer http://ow.ly/5kDSa
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: when to buy organic?
handy guide to reduce our kids’ intake of pesticides along with their fruits & vegggies at EWG http://ow.ly/5iy96 Filed under: Miscellany
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Poem of the week: The Rolling English Road by GK Chesterton | Books | guardian.co.uk
The Rolling English Road Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire, And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire; A merry road, a mazy road, and such as […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: how men and women make decisions under stress
Stress causes men and women to respond differently to risky decision making, with men charging ahead for small rewards and women taking their time, according to a new study in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, published by Oxford University Press. via thesituationist.wordpress.com Brain imaging showed that men’s brains were activated in reward/addiction areas while women’s […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: how men and women make decisions under stress
Stress causes men and women to respond differently to risky decision making, with men charging ahead for small rewards and women taking their time, according to a new study in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, published by Oxford University Press. via thesituationist.wordpress.com Brain imaging showed that men’s brains were activated in reward/addiction areas while women’s […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Õhtuvalguses / Evening light – Landscape & Rural Photos – Vaido’s Photoblog
via vaido.aminus3.com
The light here and colour is so vivid, it makes me think of something you can taste.
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Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: “SlutWalks and the future of feminism”
The word “slut” got under my skin. Then I read it. Go girls go! http://ow.ly/5ankE
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: emily dickinson is helen oyeyemi’s hero–who’s yours?
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. via guardian.co.uk My literary hero is George Eliot because she was a late bloomer, because she […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: yarn bombing, graffitti with sweaters
I like the new pink and purple skin of the bull NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/59Hi9
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Music of Aussie rockers AC/DC irresistable to sharks
“If You Want Blood” a favourite. Seriously. http://ow.ly/59yG4
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Paul S. Graham: Our democracy is broken
In his new job as Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, Jack Layton has pledged to “fix Ottawa.” I’ve taken this to mean he will lead by example in hope of teaching the children to play nicely. I wish him luck. The problem with our democracy goes far beyond Stephen Harper’s well documented contempt for […]
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