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Word aversion: Hate moist? Slacks? Crevice? Why do people hate words? - Slate Magazine - 39 views

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shared by Ashley W. on 02 Apr 13 - No Cached
    • Zoe Cook
      Zoe Cook on 09 Apr 13
       
      I think it is really hard for us to separate words from their meanings and I think that, even unintentionally, we will always have some aversion to words whose meaning we dislike or find "gross". I think it would be really interesting to see a study in which the participants did not speak the target language and then judged how attractive sounding the words were. I think the results would be at least somewhat different than those studies done about English words with English speakers, who cannot fully disassociate the meaning from the word. On the other hand, maybe we give gross sounding names to gross things. Maybe our language reflects our preferences, instead of our preferences unfairly classifying our language.
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Stop Stealing Dreams (the entire manifesto on the web), cleaned up HTML version - Stop ... - 89 views

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  • we see ever more belief in unfounded theories
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      Zoe Cook on 31 Oct 12
       
      Does he have any proof for this? I find it hard to believe that compulsory education INCREASES our belief in the irrational, especially as scientific study grows in depth and spread as time passes.
  • And the flip side of this fear and conformity must be that passion will be destroyed.
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      Zoe Cook on 04 Nov 12
       
      This guy really, really hates conventional schooling. Amplify fear and destroy passion? Is school really that much of an Orwellian dystopia? 
  • 43. How not to teach someone to be a baseball fan
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      Zoe Cook on 04 Nov 12
       
      So we should only be taught and seek information that we are passionate about? Or we should only find the "fun" information? It's easy to make the analogy while talking about baseball, but try to apply it to some actual school subjects. If kids only do what they're passionate about, we'll have a country full of adults, some of which can't multiply and some of which don't know the significance of 1776. 
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Progress on TIB Film - 88 views

started by Amy Burvall on 20 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
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    #14 Zoe Cook on 20 Sep 12
     
    Before this class, I already had my list of beliefs and my idea of using a sped-up film. I figured out how I would divide my beliefs onto eight different pages and how I would lay these pages out in class. I also made a rough draft of five out of eight that I will later trace over with dark ink on camera and then speed up over the weekend.
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15 Big Ways The Internet Is Changing Our Brain » Online College Search - Your... - 6 views

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  • overlook older, valuable information, instead choosing to seek out new information
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      Zoe Cook on 06 Sep 12
       
      This implies that new information can't be as valuable as old information; what if the new information we gain through multitasking is more important than what we would have obtained otherwise?
  • Even after you log off (if you ever do), your brain remains rewired
    • Zoe Cook
      Zoe Cook on 06 Sep 12
       
      Is there actual physical difference in the connections between the centers of the brain when this "rewiring" occurs? What areas does this affect?
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