„It’s hot! It’s sexy! It’s … marriage!“ [#]
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was ist verhalten.
„Yet a favorite human sport fails to meet the new lexical guidelines. Thinking, it seems, is not a behavior. If you think about going for a walk and then go for a walk, that’s a behavior. If you think about going for a walk but then decide it’s too cold, that’s a behavior. Walk or not, just make up your mind. It don’t mean a thing till you get off that swing.“ [#]
I do.
„I am an Engineer/MBA forced into early retirement. In 1999, at the age of 32, I suffered a brain stem stroke which left me a quadriplegic without speech. This blog is mainly about my life after the stroke.“ [#]
ongoing transformations.
„These ongoing transformations in science and society are deeply pervading popular culture and are appearing in a profusion of media and artistic expanse- from the visual arts to film, theatre, novels and advertisements. With this website, we explore and document past and current manifestations of this phenomenon and introduce an online platform for the analysis and exchange of cultural projects intersecting neuroscience, the arts and the humanities.“ [#]
I killed a girl called reality.
„I guess we intended to speak about reality in general. I, for example, have the impression of not knowing why I do stuff, why I react on certain issues and not on others that concern my personal reality. Speaking of structural reality – I don’t know that either. Everything seems to be constructed: which TV series are shown, what sort of popcorn you can buy, why some people can cross a border and others can’t and why there are stateless people who have to live for years in the transit areas of airports. So in fact airports are like a mini-world and so to this mini-world all the measures to fight terrorism or whatever are applied and you see and feel it immediately, without any filter, pretty raw. So the answer might be: reality already died, or it was never alive anywhere.“ [#]
do not fix me, I am not broken.
„Do not use theories and strategies on me. Be with me. And when we struggle with each other, let that give rise to self-reflection.“ [#]
stochasticity.
„Radiolab examines Stochasticity, which is just a wonderfully slippery and smarty-pants word for randomness. How big a role does randomness play in our lives? Do we live in a world of magic and meaning or … is it all just chance and happenstance? To tackle this question, we look at the role chance and randomness play in sports, lottery tickets, and even the cells in our own body.“ [#]
stories of silence.
“I have learned that silence is as complex as spoken language, as differentiated and as subtle. Sometimes it is self-imposed, sometimes other-imposed. Sometimes it is driven by the urge to protect or salvage or cherish; other times as a weapon of defence or control or denial. One thing that underscores all instances: it is rarely unproblematic.” [#]
baseball. sotomayor.
“The often leisurely game of baseball is filled with many small moments which catch a fan’s breath,“ she said. “There is, for example, that wonderful second when you see an outfielder backpedaling and jumping up to the wall and time stops for an instant as he jumps up and you finally figure out whether it’s a home run, a double or a single off the wall or an out.“ [#]
[Man muss immer wieder, täglich, dankbar sein für das Internet, das uns in Berlin so wunderbar leisurely Baseball gucken lässt.]
