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contentious.com — Amy Gahran’s news and musings on how we commun Scarlet Words Tara’s Weblog The Pleasures of Imagination - The Chronicle Review - The Chroni By Paul Bloom How do Americans spend their leisure time? The answer might surprise you. Our main leisure activity is, by a long shot, participating in experiences that we know are not real. This is a strange way for an animal to spend its days. One solution to this puzzle is that the pleasures of the imagination exist because they hijack mental systems that have evolved for real-world pleasure. The capacity for imaginative pleasure is universal, and it emerges early in development. Developmental psychologists have long been interested in children's appreciation of the distinction between pretense and reality. It is an open question how early this understanding emerges, and there is some intriguing experimental work exploring this. Why do we get pleasure from the imagination? The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. These emotional responses are typically muted compared with the real thing. Does this suggest that people believe, at some level, that the events are real?

Granta Magazine swissmiss Crowdsourcing Willkommen in der Ideenfabrik - BrainStore.com - Industrial IdeaProduction Kitchens And Appliances Of The Future - Announcing The Top 25 Entries of Electrolux Design Lab 2010 The Top 25 Entries of Electrolux Design Lab 2010 It’s not always easy to predict the future. For its 2010 competition, Electrolux Design Lab went with the theme: The 2nd Space Age; this essentially translating to designing a home environment for the year 2050, when 74% of the global population are predicted to live in urban areas. 25) A- Laundry: Community Laundry Concept by Kai Wai Lee A communal laundry for the entire apartment block! 24) Bio Robot Refrigerator by Yuriy Dmitriev The Bio Robot fridge cools biopolymer gel through luminescence and uses non sticky, odorless gel to envelope stored food as individual pods. 23) Bio Tank, Robotic ‘FishWasher’ by Akifusa Nakazawa The Bio Tank does the dishes, is a pet and a composter…all-in-one! 22) Bx7 Preparation Unit by Losif Mihailo Don’t pack in vitamin pills like Samantha in Sex and The City 2, instead gorge on capsules of zinc, calcium, magnesium, or carbohydrates with water to for nutritious juice! 19) Community Fridge by Pedro Sanin Perez

Glaserei Life in Cairo BOOKS - ArtsBeat Blog Photo A rambling 1950 letter from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac that helped inspire “On the Road” will be auctioned next month by Christie’s in New York, apparently bringing to an end an 18-month legal battle over its ownership. The 16,000-word typed letter, which carries an estimate of $400,000 to $600,000, had been considered lost before it surfaced in the discarded files of Golden Goose Press, a now-defunct small San Francisco publisher, and listed for sale by a Southern California auction house in 2014. That auction was suspended after the Kerouac estate and Cassady’s children said they were the owners. Jami Cassady, a spokeswoman for the family, told The San Francisco Chronicle this week that the three parties had reached “an amicable settlement.” The missive, known as the Joan Anderson letter, after a woman with whom Cassady described an amorous relationship, had been known only from a fragment, apparently retyped by Kerouac, that was published in 1964.

Violence Visual !!! Erinnerungen an das „Tanzverbot“ – Leider noch kein Nachruf | words can't do what action does louder! Karfreitag naht. Zeit, sich mit den ernsten Dingen des Lebens zu beschäftigen. Zum Beispiel mit dem rheinland-pfälzischen Landesgesetz über den Schutz der Sonn- und Feiertage (Feiertagsgesetz – LFtG). Auch auf Wunsch von Triers einzigem online-Kulturmagazin hunderttausend.de, dem ich natürlich gerne nachkomme. Wie aus meinem Steckbrief hervorgeht, war ich einst Mitbetreiber einer freien Cocktail- und Kultureinrichtung im “Herzen von Trier”. Frei deshalb, weil wir nicht öffentlich gefördert wurden und versuchten, uns lediglich aus Eintrittsgeldern, Thekenumsatz und dem ein oder anderen Werbedeal zu finanzieren. Ein trüber Freitagvormittag Ende November 2008. Der heutige Herr stellt sich als Mitarbeiter des Ordnungsamts vor. Das Rockband-Problem haben andere Läden, aber zum Hintergrund muss man folgendes wissen: Die Sachlage war mir nicht neu. Ich sollte an diesem Tag sehr viel telefonieren. Ich telefoniere mit dem Disponenten und “Leiter des künstlerischen Betriebsbüros”. Gefällt mir: