“What they failed to grasp, however, is that in the hands of interested parties, a message that was intended to reassure was presented as an admission of problems.”

love for the Munsell color system; short of that, I wonder where my copy of Color Index got to

“We‘re really in an interesting time, radio[ily] speaking, in that there hasn't been a time before, certainly in the last five years, maybe the last ten, when there was such an inordinate number of relatively high-powered personal transmitters just wandering loose in the world.”

Fill this in yourself.

"Nothing about the patient changed. What changed was the test—and with it, our definitions of evidence and activity. ... By making the brain's blood flow observable, the scan expanded our understanding of physical reality and human agency. Thought is ac

"Curiosity and creativity in the fully adult sense are hard work and are acquired tastes, just like running is an acquired taste. ...[I]t is probably equally futile to expect either to become widely popular among the general population."

latest research about Toxoplasma (the brain-eating catlady parasite)