emotional pain

“A striking observation was the extent of inequality in the distribution of emotional pain. About half our participants reported going through an entire day without experiencing an unpleasant episode. On the other hand, a significant minority of the population experienced considerable emotional distress for much of the day. It appears that a small fraction of the population does most of the suffering—whether because of physical or mental illness, an unhappy temperament, or the misfortunes and personal tragedies in their life.” Thinking, Fast & Slow

italics are mine - vs

“The satiation level beyond which experienced well-being no longer increases was a household income of about $75,000 in high-cost areas (it could be less in areas where the cost of living is lower). The average increase of experienced well-being associated with incomes beyond that level was precisely zero.

see also Figure 16 in 38. Thinking About Life on life satisfaction as a function of marriage duration.

those who flourish

It is common for those who flourish under any system to feel that the failure of others is deserved. - Caesar: Life of a Colossus

гнутся шведы

Assange sex allegations to expire

see also: Swedish prosecutors have been accused of "victimising" Julian Assange after it was revealed they had interviewed 44 people in the UK but were refusing to question the WikiLeaks founder in the London embassy where he is living. - belfasttelegraph.co.uk

альтернативная история

according to mi3ch

Greater Israel отсутствует.

нет ли в этом антисемитизма? © vsopvs

см. также Том! Нет ответа.

скоро придется label заводить нет ответа: Смотрю на это иначе © otkaznik

Not born this way

Other liberation movements have rejected the idea that biology is destiny. So why should gay rights depend on it? - Not born this way

compare with Gender is a Social Construction

см. также ветвистое обсуждение «Куннилингус в гетеросексе как мизогинная сексуальная практика»

а наша Masha Gessen тем временем пишет: I lived in Russia as an out lesbian for 20 years, and my family and I suffered the full brunt of the anti-gay laws, from being violently attacked to having to flee the country. - довольно бесстыдная фраза с какой точки зрения ни посмотри. объяснять лень.

в комментариях Joan formerly NYC August 12, 2015 цитирует отрывок из машиной статьи, начинающийся со слов "I published a piece in Out Magazine..." и говорит: "This is called rationalizing."

decriminalising all sex work

Amnesty International has voted in favour of a proposal that would mean adults who buy sex from prostitutes would not face criminal sanctions. - telegraph.co.uk

Гуннар Гейнзон

Гуннар Гейнзон aka Гуннар Хейнсон (Gunnar Heinsohn) очень коротко

• перевод на английский A Continent of Losers - Maj 2007, в trykkefrihed.dk
• теперь вдруг это выплыло, все цитируют одного Сай Фрумкин, у него вижу pdf, см. также @ gatesofvienna
• почему не наблюдаю перевода Sohne und Weltmacht на английский? вашингтонский обком запретил по причине недостаточной политкорректности?
• В книге Гуннара Хейнсона (Gunnar Heinsohn) и Герберта Иллига, называющейся "Когда жили фараоны?" [1186], ставится вопрос о правильности скалигеровской хронологии "древнего" Египта. - это у Фоменко
• ну и вообще google youth risk psychology

wow his article was published in WSJ in 2009! Ending the West's Proxy War Against Israel

ну и немного критики:

• The World’s Nastiest Genocide Scholar
  
• NATO's Demographer
  

интересно отметить, что практически во всем, что возвращает google Raphael-Lemkin institute "University of Bremen", упоминается герр Хейнсон, но нигде - . см. также The Man Who Invented Genocide: The Public Career and Consequences of Raphael Lemkin and Genocide Or Ethnocide, 1933-2007: How to Make, Unmake, and Remake Law with Words by Bartolomé Clavero and Genocide and Indigenous Peoples in International Law by the same author. also The Saga of Hog Island на сайте University of Bremen найти Raphael Lemkin institute мне не удалось.

sensible reason

...alert that flashed up on Bloomberg News when Saddam Hussein was discovered hiding in a hole: US Treasuries Rise; Hussein Capture May Not Curb Terrorism.

But treasury bonds fluctuated that day; they usually do. Half an hour later, they were down, and a new Bloomberg alert flashed up: US Treasuries Fall; Hussein Capture Boosts Allure of Risky Assets.

After all, there had to be a sensible reason why the price had changed, didn't there? And so Bloomberg found one. Saddam's capture had caused the price to rise. Or fall. One of the two. - Days that shook the world

reading Thinking, Fast and Slow

not even past

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

—William Faulkner, Requium for a Nun

from Favorite Quotations @ William Cronon

"In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw."
—William Maxwell

Ibid.

mere exposure effect

Mere-exposure effect

while reading Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow

Biological fact: an organism should react cautiously to a novel stimulus, with withdrawal and fear.

If repeated exposure of a stimulus is followed by nothing bad, such a stimulus will eventually become a safety signal.

no news is good news, that is

Jewish cotton merchant

Nathan Laski was a Jewish cotton merchant - Harold Laski

Jewish cotton merchant - это как? Jewish cotton? или Jewish merchant? or both?

how is it relevant i wonder that he was Jewish

google details

Iran Quds chief visited Russia despite UN travel ban: Iran official - это заголовок в Google World News со ссылкой на Reuters Canada. если статью открыть, в третьем абзаце можно прочесть, что это Iranian official, who declined to be identified.

курсив мой

Williamsburg

© etotam

economics of drought

These little pistachios are very thirsty. It takes almost a gallon of water to grow one pistachio and a gallon of water to grow an almond. Nut trees are some of the thirstiest crops around. And yet, here we are in the middle of a drought and Mark is planting pistachio trees as fast as he can. - The screwed-up economics of drought, and why the rational thing to do in California right now is use more water.

spreading false claims

President Obama had a tough message for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or Aipac, the powerful pro-Israel group that is furiously campaigning against the Iran nuclear accord, when he met with two of its leaders at the White House this week. The president accused Aipac of spending millions of dollars in advertising against the deal and spreading false claims about it, people in the meeting recalled. - Fears of Lasting Rift as Obama Battles Pro-Israel Group on Iran

things do turn nasty
italics are mine

funny they print Aipac like this - mixed case. It's upper case all over except NYT

and i say - nasty: White House allies apoplectic over Schumer

Concerto for Violin in C

Concerto for Violin in C, RV 181a
Antonio Vivaldi

wqxr youtube

how very appropriate

[underage] hormone bomb

...it unfolds in an anything-goes milieu in which Monroe might be branded more of an opportunist than a creep. - Review: In ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl,’ a Hormone Bomb Waiting to Explode

начинают потихоньку. What you call Monroe, other than an expletive, depends on what you call a man having sex with a 15-year-old girl. хмм...

выделено мной - вс


based on this book

how very funny that on salinger gloeckner Google returns full page of links all with the same stupid sentence from the publisher web site “It’s the most honest depiction of sexuality in a long, long time; as a meditation on adolescence, it picks up a literary ball that’s been only fitfully carried after Salinger.” —Nerve.com

and that comes from Nerve...

literary ball my ass

see also Phoebe Gloeckner on reopening The Diary Of A Teenage Girl

review

конный портрет дуче

Конный портрет дуче, 1937.         Donna al caffè

Antonio Donghi

Закон жизни

в довольно занудной биографии Жданова (Волынец А.Н., Жданов, ЖЗЛ) есть история про фильм Закон жизни.

история очень познавательная, и про хмыканье Сталина, и про арцыбашевщину, ну да и фильм удивительный.

режиссер Столпер Александр Борисович, однако, дожил до 1979-го, несмотря на сталинское хмыканье и разносы Жданова. второй режиссер, Борис Иванов, умер в 1964-м. ну а сценарист, Авдеенко, Александр Остапович - тот вообще только в 1991-м скончался.

см. также Справка о запрещенных кинофильмах В 1940 И 1941 годах: Фильм «Закон жизни» возрождает арцыбашевщину, проповедует половую распущенность.

кто б мог подумать, и Сердца четырех был запрещен...

в общем вся Глава 19 познавательная.

good will hunting

Finally, a piece of good news from the world of hunting: Texas Man Injured After Bullet Ricochets Off Armadillo

© saccovanzetti