Quote for Today: Burkhard Bilger
One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every …
Quote for Today: David Levithan
I thought about the word ‘profile’ and what a weird double meaning it had. We say we’re looking at a person’s profile online, or say a newspaper is writing a …
Quote for Today: Christopher Moore
How do you know, when you think blue— when you say blue— that you are talking about the same blue as anyone else? You cannot get a grip on blue. Blue is …
Faking English: Skwerl by Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston
If a conversation contains patterns taken from English but not sensible words, do we still perceive it as English? What is it that gives a language its own personality and …