If Dr. Seuss Did Star Wars (HT: 22 Words)
And the Most Popular Road-Trip Song Is …
Meet Charles Jennens, the librettist who arranged the text that became Handel’s Messiah.
Being watched by a photograph of staring eyes can be enough encouragement to behave, follow orders or do the right thing, a study has found.
“Can modern science help us to create heroes? That's the lofty question behind the Heroic Imagination Project, a new nonprofit started by Phil Zimbardo, a psychologist at Stanford University. The goal of the project is simple: to put decades of experimental research to use in training the next generation of exemplary Americans, churning out good guys with the same efficiency that gangs and terrorist groups produce bad guys.” (Read the rest at WSJ)
95-year-old Calif. woman returns library book overdue 74 years
Talk about your filthy lucre: Time reports: “To the long list of household items and other common objects contaminated with bisphenol A (BPA) — an endocrine disruptor linked to infertility, genital abnormalities, cancer and more — add something unexpected: money. The cash in your wallet, it turns out, may be dusted with the dangerous chemical, and that can cause real problems if you do the one thing you absolutely must do if you're going to spend money — which is touch it.”
“Married men are more responsible, less aggressive, less likely to do something illegal and more mentally healthy than single ones” (Time). Does this mean these types of men are more likely to marry, or that marriage brings about these qualities?
Posts at “Get Anchored” since last Tuesday:
“People loved the Keep Austin Weird house, but they didn’t want to live there”
“What shall it profit a city to gain the world and still lose its soul?”
Review of Douglas LeBlanc’s “Tithing: Test Me in This”
LeaderLines: Five Commitments of Great Teams
“Our biology shapes our propensities for a wide variety of behaviors”
Winning Ways: What It Takes to Teach the World to Sing
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