Stuff to bring up at a dinner party
When Do We Stop Finding New Music? A Statistical Analysis
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‘music paralysis’, or when and why our music tastes stagnate as we get older.
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Samantha Sine
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journals.uchicago.eduWhen men feel their masculinity is threatened, they are 24 percentage-points more likely to want to buy an SUV. They are also willing to pay $7,320 more than non-threatened men for the same vehicle.
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moreaccording to Rich Corsi, dean of engineering at Portland State University: “Americans spend more time inside buildings than some whale species spend underwater.”
Evolving human ecology | WARC
“Because people leant forward in their seats or on their couches or bar stools when he got the ball and the fast break began, because they might see something they had never seen before, which is exactly why we love basketball, and exactly the feeling you have when you have those little rippling epiphanies here and there about the nature of
... See moreA Book of Uncommon Prayer by Brian Doyle — and also a nice insight on why we love sports.