December 2011
84 posts
Swearing Relieves Pain, But Not If Over-Used... →
psychotherapy:
Cursing can provide effective, short-term pain relief say researchers, but not if over-used: the effect is much greater for people who do not make a habit of it. Richard Stephens and Claudia Umland from the School of Psychology at the University of Keele in the UK, report findings that shed new light on the use of swearing as a response to pain in the 14 November online...
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What Goes Around - NYTimes.com Interactive Feature →
Along with jazz and speakeasies, the 1920s were also the heyday of the American carousel. […] Even as fancy carousels go, Jane’s is especially elaborate, with hand-carved horses and detail work in platinumand gold leaf. The architect Jean Nouvel designed the acrylic box that shields riders from the elements and admits sunshine, creating a winter-garden effect when it’s cold, with views of...
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Zielschmerz
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you created in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could, only to break in case of emergency.
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"The Child of the Rebellion" →
west virginia tourism has assembled a special site to catalog the state’s historical contributions to the civil war.
…and the vast majority of the “northern panhandle” video is shot in my hometown of wheeling!
i know. nobody else cares. it’s cool.
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“Oh, the glamour of youth! Oh, the fire of it, more dazzling than the flames of...”
– Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction | “Youth” | p. 27 (via random-utterances)
it’s my birthday, bitches.
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November 2011
49 posts
