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Second language changes the way bilinguals read in their native tongue

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:35:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Do bilinguals have an internal switch that stops their two languages from interfering with each other, or are both languages always "on"?

Clip Source: bps-research-digest.blogspot.com

The fact that bilinguals aren't forever spurting out words from the wrong language implies there's some kind of switch.

in 2007, brain surgeons reported evidence for a language switch when their cortical prodding with an electrode caused two bilingual patients to switch languages suddenly and involuntarily.

On the other hand, there's good evidence that languages are integrated in the bilingual mind.

bilinguals are faster at naming an object when the word for that object is similar or the same in the two languages they speak (e.g. ship/schip in English and Dutch).

even when bilinguals read sentence after sentence in their native tongue, access to words in their second language remains open, rather than switched off, thus having an effect on the way the native language is processed.

"Becoming a bilingual means one will never read the newspaper again in the same way," they concluded. "It changes one of people's seemingly most automatic skills, namely, reading in one's native language."

Tags: language, perception, psychology, reading, speech, research

The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:06:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Volume I and Volume II

Clip Source: www.flickr.com

Volume 1, edited by Alan Aldridge, 2nd impression 1970 by Macdonald Unit 75

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The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics Vol. 2

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Tags: books, music, beatles, illustration, art, reading

When comic book heroes and villains get old: Superheroes Decadence by Donald Soffritti

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:04:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Italian cartoonist Donald Soffritti imagines the later years of superheroes, with hilarious results. His brilliant cartoons have been collected into a book, available here

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Tags: books, illustration, comics, reading, age, art

The Great Order of the Universe by Christian Bök

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:15:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Via @bitoy's Flickr

Clip Source: www.poetryfoundation.org

NOTES: “The Great Order of the Universe” is a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the LEGO patent. Using a conceptual strategy reminiscent of Sol LeWitt, the image enumerates every possible way of combining two LEGO bricks, each with six pegs. The caption consists of two texts: the first, a translated paragraph from a volume by Democritus; the second, a transcribed paragraph from the patent by Godtfred Kirk Christiansen. The two paragraphs are perfect anagrams of each other.

Source: Poetry (July/August 2009).

Tags: lego, fun, anagram, illustration, writing

Anton Kannemeyer - The Alphabet of Democracy

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:11:47 GMT

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Clip Source: www.we-make-money-not-art.com

a selection of Kannemeyer's works on paper from The Alphabet of Democracy-series, a new series entitled Cursed Paradise and drawings from recent sketch books; all of which raise extremely uncomfortable questions in the debate about racial stereotypes and South Africa cultural and socio-political landscape.

With The Alphabet of Democracy, the white South African artist tackles many issues politicians and journalists tent to "diplomatically" avoid. The series sharply comments on the madness below the surface of the rabidly conformist parts of white South African society, especially the Afrikaans community. Black politicians are not protected from his sarcasm either as the alphabet also targets the absurdity of some of their statements.

In this context, the word "democracy" becomes subversive. The liberated South African society and its form of government are shown as just another arbitrary social order fraught with moral ambiguity and human absurdity.

Tags: art, comics, culture, politics, racism, south africa

Picture Perfect: The Reality of Being a Disney Princess.

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:59:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Here are the rest of the photos. Jasmine looks kinda cool, in an unrealistic, superhero kind of way.

Clip Source: flavorwire.com

West Coast photographer Dina Goldstein, whose almost-complete series Fallen Princesses casts light on the modern day plight of fairy tale royalty. Just what would a contemporary Cinderella be doing with herself? Take a look at a few of Goldstein’s powerful images after the jump

At first glance, Goldstein’s work is a humorous, tongue-in-cheek jab at Disney and the total fantasy of their princesses that do not correlate with the real world. Yet, on further inspection, these images convey a powerful message about the complexities of modern womanhood, as the princesses struggle with the blights of 21st century living: they battle their appearances, domestic inequality, and the ravages of war. More than just a critique of cartoons, Goldstein demonstrates the disparity of women’s expectations and experiences in a way that is both accessible and striking.

Tags: cartoons, children, life, photography, women

Hug O' War

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:13:29 GMT

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Clip Source: wso.williams.edu

by Shel Silverstein

I will not play at tug o' war.
I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs,
Where everyone giggles
And rolls on the rug,
Where everyone kisses,
And everyone grins,
And everyone cuddles,
And everyone wins.

Tags: affection, children, game, lyrical

Prague's Kafka International Named Most Alienating Airport

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:31:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.youtube.com

[Video]

Tags: humor, literature, news, satire, video

The snub of the century

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:39:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "It was T.S. Eliot himself who rejected George Orwell’s Animal Farm for publication by Faber and Faber..."

Clip Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

When Orwell submitted his novel, an allegory on Stalin’s dictatorship, Eliot praised its “good writing” and “fundamental integrity”.

However, the book’s politics, at a time when Britain was allied with the Soviet Union against Hitler, were another matter.

“We have no conviction that this is the right point of view from which to criticise the political situation at the current time,” wrote Eliot, adding that he thought its “view, which I take to be generally Trotskyite, is not convincing”.

Eliot wrote: “After all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm – in fact there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed (someone might argue) was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.”

Tags: literature, history, eliot, orwell, criticism, publishing, books

Infographic Red Riding Hood

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:32:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.vimeo.com

Slagsmålsklubben

School assignment to reinterpret the
fairytale Little red ridning hood.

Inspired by Röyksopps Remind me.

Music: Slagsmålsklubben, Sponsored by destiny
smk.just.nu
Animation: Tomas Nilsson
tomas-nilsson.se

[Video]

Tags: motion, graphics, fairytale, infographics, video

10 Literary one-hit wonders

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:47:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wondering what other books we can add to the list.

Clip Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird - The original Times review

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

Gone with the Wind - The original Times review

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

See the very first Wuthering Heights advertisment in The Times

J.D.Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Salinger is a member of the one-hit-wonder club only if you consider Franny and Zooey, published in 1961, as a novella. Salinger's last published work, a short story, appeared in The New Yorker in 1965.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar - The original Times review

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty

Boris Pasternak - Dr Zhivago

Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things

Read an extract from The God of Small Things

Tags: books, list, literature

Cat Shit One movie trailer

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:24:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bunnies are always awesome.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Title: Cat Shit One - the Animated Series

Production: Studio Anima

Director: Kazuya Sasahara
Original Manga (released in the USA as Apocalypse Meow): Motofumi Kobayashi
Format: 23 min. 12 episodes

[Video]

Tags: animals, animation, manga, movie, trailer

Seamus Heaney Reflects On His Life In Verse

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:41:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The two poems can be found at the source, along with an interesting reading (/interpretation) by John Lundberg. There is also a link at the bottom of the post if you wish to read more of Seamus Heaney's work.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

This past week, Seamus Heaney was awarded the prestigious David Cohen prize for his life's work in poetry. It gave Heaney (who turns 70 next month) the chance to reflect on his career, and gives us the chance to as well. The ceremony, interestingly, called for Heaney to select two poems that sum up his work. He was upfront about the difficulty of this: " I have a slight problem in knowing how to represent a lifetime of poems by reading only a couple of them."

Heaney chose two poems which speak to the poetic process: the short lyric poem "Underground" and the sonnet "A Drink of Water."

Tags: award, inspiration, literature, poetry, writing

Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:00:37 GMT

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Clip Source: silhouettemasterpiecetheatre.com

Tags: art, wit, humor

When I wear red underwear, I can do anything.

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:53:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In case you need to know, I do have red underwear.

Clip Source: zenhabits.net

there’s a little thing called NLP going on here, or — big word coming — neuro-linguistic programming. (For more info on NLP check out Tim’s blog here). It’s basically taking an object, a symbol, a gesture, or a movement and turning it into a trigger. It’s programming yourself to react or feel a certain way when an event is triggered. It’s part power of suggestion, part power of intention.

You’ve probably felt this way before with a lucky hat or a piece of jewelry that means a lot to you.

Whatever it is, there’s some serious awesomeness going on there.

The key is to take that unintentional programming and apply it intentionally.

use triggers in your routine to help you create certain emotional states. Ideally, the key is to be able to set off triggers anywhere, so you’re not dependent on something else (like listening to a song, or watching a scene from a movie)

Instead of letting things trigger emotional responses within you on accident, it makes more sense to do it on purpose, right?

Tags: efficiency, life, motivation, psychology