February 2012
“Watching the hot sunlight falling on the tablecloth covered with sticky blotches...”
– Victor Pelevin, The Yellow Arrow (via millionsmillions)
“we do not want to pay for our memories. The films that remind us of our...”
– ‘We, the Web Kids,’ The Atlantic (via somethingchanged)
'Pepper Spray Cop' Suit Filed - NPR →
brooklynmutt:
Some of those Occupy protesters who famously got face fulls of pepper spray last November on the campus of University of California Davis have now filed suit in federal court.
They allege “the university used excessive force to break up the demonstration,” The Sacramento Bee writes. “The Occupy UC Davis students were sprayed as they sat on the ground.”
The American Civil...
“An M.I.T. neuroscientist named Ann Graybiel told me that she and her colleagues...”
– In which I learned that Orwell was wrong: Big Brother isn’t the government, it’s Target.
Charles Duhigg, How Companies Learn Your Secrets
This is, like, the secret nut graf in this widely circulated NYT piece about shopping habits. Tell me this doesn’t explain everything about everything.
(via...
“Over a lifetime, a medical student who specializes can expect to earn $3.5...”
– via
When boomers retire from the doctor profession, primary care dies. And that quote up there is by far the number one reason why. An extra $3.5 million is hard to turn down.
(via jayparkinsonmd)
“For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or...”
– “My Hero: Michael Ondaatje” by Teju Cole. (via millionsmillions)
