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  1. Feb 2016
    1. how it is managed, how it is played, who is best suited to play it and why.

      again the author wants the reader to understand that this game is far more complex than what people perceive it to be.

    2. There were all sorts of ancillary traits in a hitter -- the number of pitches he saw per plate appearance, for instance -- that had concrete value to a baseball offense but that were treated by most baseball people as worthless.

      the author focuses more on the traits and characteristics of a player, how they correlate to the different elements of baseball, rather than just seeing it as a game of hit the ball, catch the ball.

    3. Batting average wasn't usually worth what it cost, but on-base percentage was usually worth a great deal more.

      Batting average: affected by the amount of hits you get at the amount of numbered at bats, also depending on the type of hit ie. single, double, triple, etc. On base percentage: how often do you get on base from walks, hit by pitches. although batting average is important, on base percentage is more important in order for you to get an opportunity to score

    1. allowing students some flexibility in how they become engaged in the classroom

      The college environment provides a lot of individuality and flexibility in how one learns. It also requires a lot personalized decision making.

    2. why shouldn’t we value someone who hasn’t had the chance to play as highly as someone who plays as well as anyone in the land

      Just by having a degree doesn't mean you'll perform better; it merely demonstrates more specialization.

    3. and so there is increasing pressure on medical schools to pay attention to interpersonal skills as well as to test scores.

      ACT/SAT scores, GPA may not be only predictors for college success; many unforeseen factors.

    4. A college quarterback joining the N.F.L., by contrast, has to learn to play an entirely new game.

      This is able to be related to the first transition into selecting a course of study at the university level that is not taught in depth, or maybe even at all, at the high school level.

    5. They had succeeded at Missouri because they were strong and fast and skilled, and these traits translate in kind to professional football.

      Successful attributes

    6. Can he be productive in a new kind of offense?

      new environment and atmosphere in college

    7. if you don’t use your eyes to move the defender a little bit, they’ll break on the ball and intercept it.

      Good analogy to studying in college for good grades

    8. faster and more complicated

      College education versus high school

    1. Robert Maudsley
    2. “Hannibal Lecter” Robert Maudsley, you might take a fellow inmate hostage, smash his skull in and sample his brains with a spoon as nonchalantly as if you were downing a soft-boiled egg.

      great correlation

    3. “This is for men.”

      that's crazy!

    4. completely unfazed

      Like the show Dexter

    1. Today, 70–75 percent of self-identified Democrats and liberals believe humans are changing the climate—a level that has remained stable or risen slightly over the past decade. In sharp contrast, Republicans, particularly Tea Party members, have overwhelmingly chosen to reject the scientific consensus. In some regions, only about 20 percent of self-identified Republicans accept the science.

      Another very interesting point, I wonder what the reason for this is and if it has more to do with politics or actual science.

    2. A 2007 Harris poll found that 71 percent of Americans believed that the continued burning of fossil fuels would cause the climate to change. By 2009 the figure had dropped to 51 percent. In June 2011 the number of Americans who agreed was down to 44 percent—well under half the population.

      This is a substantial difference in how many Americans believe fossil fuels cause climate change in the span of just 4 years.

    3. I will hear versions of the opinion expressed by the county commissioner in the fourth row: that climate change is a Trojan horse designed to abolish capitalism and replace it with some kind of eco-socialism

      I can't tell if this article is biased against people who don't agree that climate change is a problem, or if they actually have this ridiculous beliefs that climate change is a hoax to replace capitalism.

    4. the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, this qualifies as a rhetorical question. Like asking a meeting of German central bankers if Greeks are untrustworthy. Still, the panelists aren’t going to pass up an opportunity to tell the questioner just how right he is

      Good analogy to immediately backup his claim about how Rothschild's question wasn't really a question

    1. What happens at work, in the factory, or in the office can only be escaped from by approximation to it in one’s leisure time.

      Interesting quote which states that although it seems like someone is escaping work or things they are obligated to attend to, they are doing things similar to those obligations.

    2. cognitive work

      Games like chess, rather than being fun, is a working task. This can be compared to being addicted to a job. It's not an addiction if someone goes to work everyday, but then again, work is a necessity for most people.

    3. The author changes perspective as video games being a fun thing to do to a job.

    1. adrenaline impacts memory.

      I did't know that adrenaline and memory had any correlation - that is interesting

    2. propranolol

      a synthetic compound that acts as a beta blocker and is used mainly in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia.

    1. "that just as sex had cooled for my soon-to-be-husband and me,..." Is sex only exciting the first time you are with a person? Or is it that the two are just not fully compatible?

    1. Anewstereotypeofautisticpeopleasbrainiacs,endowedwithquirkysuperminds,isjustasmisguidedastheoldassumptionthatautisticpeoplearementallydisabled

      the downside to all the studies that show not all autistic kids have low IQ's

    2. LarshadalwaysenjoyedLegos,andtalkingtootherparents,Sonneheardstoriesabouthowthetoybricksbroughtoutremarkable,hiddenabilities.

      a trend in autistic kids

    3. Theconceptofsociallymandateddishonestywouldmystifyhim,
    4. Modernofficeculture—withitsunwrittenrulesofbehavior,itsfluidandsociallydemandingworkspaces—canbehostileterritoryforautisticpeople,whodobetterinpredictableenvironmentsandwhotendtobeclumsyatshapingtheirprioritiesaroundotherpeople’srequirements.

      big difference between company made for autistic workers and normal workers

    5. In2009,scientistsatKing’sCollegeLondonconcludedthataboutathirdofautisticmaleshave“someformofoutstandingability.”
    6. AteamofCanadianscientistspublishedapaperin2007showingthatmeasuresofintelligencevarywildly,dependingonwhattestisused.
    7. triestoshieldthemfromtheusualstressesofofficework,

      even though these autistic kids are holding down a job like every other kid there are still differences

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    1. (Or, using another metaphor, if the brain is an orchestra, then the neurochemical approach focuses on how well individual players listen and respond to the players adjacent to them; the network approach, like a conductor, focuses on how the orchestra's sections — strings, winds, brass, etc. — coordinate and balance volume and tone. When both are working well, you've got music.)

      Need this

    1. That’s it. One man, one fish, no processing plants, no nosy government inspectors. My life was, in fact, in Hashimoto’s hands.

      interesting.

    2. one that’s most likely to kill me dead.

      is it even worth it? honestly

    3. fugu

      Japanese word for puffer fish

    1. And she feels it is because I'm worried about losing people, like I lost my parents, so I don't ever put myself in a position to lose.

      This is the reason why she has built her walls so high because she is afraid of letting them down and losing someone important to her

    2. More than I believe in the sanctity of union and promise, I believe that everybody cheats.

      This is true but everyone has different versions of what they believe cheating is

    3. If you are about to say something that's going to crush me, then don't take me to my favorite restaurant and do it to me over wine.

      She knew long before they got in the car that he was going to let her down

    4. But you can't have it now so you need it.

      This proves that we don't know what we have until we lose it

    5. Maybe an actual individual needs to heal you, says a friend of mine to me.

      This may be true but it also goes against the saying "you should learn to love yourself" by saying that we need another individual to do that for us.

    6. People in affairs are hackneyed. They talk about what would have happened if we had met five years ago, seven years ago, twenty-four years ago, if you had been alive then.

      This I would say is true and then like later on in the paragraph it's something they can't have now. It's the excitement of not being able to have someone that causes a person to go for that certain individual even more.

    7. Once a cheater, always a cheater.

      This isn't always a true or accurate statement. There are many reasons why people cheat but it does not mean that a person will cheat on every single one of their significant others.

    8. Days after she'd been told by her husband that he's leaving not for anyone in particular but only because he doesn't love her anymore,

      At this point, the wife already knew that her husband was in love with another woman

    9. I love X, but I don't know if I can live a life with him knowing what's out there.

      She doesn't feel like she can create a life with him due to the fact that he is committed to another girl

    1. ToughLove was for kids on drugs. I didn’t think that was a problem we had with Eric

      the problem could be the parent's as well. Plain and simple case of denial. As well as some unstable thoughts.

    2. Sometimes my mom would throw me out and sometimes I would just leave

      Some parents have trouble controlling their kids. When kids are able to just leave the house like Eric, they might feel like they can do what ever they want. If the parent isn't going to punish them for their actions, the child is not going to care. Eric Ran away right before his report card was sent. Most likely because it showed bad grades. Eric needs to have respect for his parents otherwise hes just going to do what he wants. Some single parents have a harder time with this because kids can take control and parents are powerless. We need places like military school or government funded programs for kids like this. I have seen families torn apart by 14 year old who feel they can do and say what they want. they call their mother names and walk out of the house when they feel like it. Some metal problems might be a cause of this and still we don't have much help for the kids with them. If we could have more than just teachers to try to help kids with mental problems maybe these outbreaks would be less likely to happen.

    3. “the right to search a student, his/ her belongings and his/her vehicle .

      I feel like this isn't done enough at some schools. They might have the power to do this but there are still tons and tons of drug problems at schools that are not being stopped. Even if we try, the kids that are using drugs need to want help or want to try to succeed. If they don't try then teachers trying to help them with their school work would be for nothing.

    4. Now he had given up the fight, and he was having fun.

      Eric didn't end up like Curt because he fell down like a snowball. He wasn't very popular with kids but when everyone at school knew he was doing drugs, he was instantly known as the "druggie". As the years went by, it was hard for him to catch up in school and eventually gave up.

    5. drug and alcohol

      I still find it humorous that drugs and alcohol are still distinguished as different. They can still be misused the same way. They are both just as addictive (i.e. marijuana and alcohol). This is probably due to the hypocrisy of parents telling their kids to be "drug free" when they are sitting there sipping on something that alters their mind just the same.

    6. Curt Hersey joined what he now calls “the bad crowd.

      Between the two boy's outcomes of high school, there was huge differences. Curt was able to see what he didn't want to be with his group of friends. instead of joining them with drugs and not doing well in school, He helped others that were having a hard time. He still stayed around his group of friends, but never fell into the spell of peer pressure.

    7. You know, the band kids may be nerdy, but there’s 60 of them, and they get in a bus and joke around.

      Even the best group of kids have the outcasts, bullies, and their fair share of drama. Even christian camps and such. Looks don't deceive. We deceive ourselves.

    8. go to fringe groups because they are the easiest to fit in with. There are no standards; they don’t have to compete. But just as the group is the easiest to get into, it’s the easiest to fall out of, and when they fall, there is no support

      Honestly, this is BS. I am not saying that this is not true. However, he is talking about this as if there are no exceptions. There are. Friends, no matter who/what they are, will always be there for you. There is always support. It just depends on where you decide to burn the bridge.

    9. No one escapes the specter of risk.

      This paragraph has a good explanation on how everyone can have problems no matter what they look or act like. Getting through these problems is hard but there is a way through it. Judging someone on looks may not always be the case. Just like the author says in this paragraph, the high school hero could have a dysfunctional family, or quiet child in class might be fighting depression. Kids and parents need to work together during this time of hardship.

    1. Seeing women for money, made me a little less sad. It was a brief respite from loneliness, from my skin being hungry for human touch the way a drowning person is starving for oxygen.

      people pay for it because they have self-esteem issues at first but then they continue because they have an addiction.

    2. girlfriend certainly didn’t know she existed.

      so his actions continued even after he found a girlfriend? he is addicted to prostitution.

    3. And I felt very remorseful when I learned this.And then I did it again.

      a vicious cycle hasformed that hes having trouble breaking. even though he knows its wrong. he addicted to something is it sex or prostitution? i don't think its sex. i don't think he would have non consensual sex with a woman if they weren't a sex worker. or maybe he would i don't know him personally. but if its me reading the signs i would say that he is addicted to prostitution.

    4. It’s like with drug use

      so from the perspective of this john it is like a drug. i wonder if he realizes it was his self-esteem that drove him to prostitution. is he addicted now?

    5. You’re in this for a connection. Physical—but also emotional

      ah there it is. so to get to the root of the situation. you wouldnt need to look for a connection both physical and emotional if you already had it. they dont so they look for it in prostitutes. but what drove you to the point of prostitution? how long does one have to stir with those types of longing before they ultimately turn to prostitution? is it tied directly to the johns or janes self-esteem? can it be corrected with with positive body and self image coaching? or is prostitution like an addicting drug?

    6. it pales in comparison to a real loving relationship with somebody who you are sexually compatible with, but it sure as fuck beats being alone and feeling untouchable.

      ultimately they are doing it for the intimacy.they dont like the detached session" so to speak. but would rather prefer a "Date" with the escort. ew

    1. As Ken Livingston wrote in The Public Interest in 1997, "In late twentieth-century America, when it is difficult or inconvenient to change the environment, we don't think twice about changing the brain of the person who has to live in it." And as Howe and Strauss wrote in Millennials Rising, "Ironically, where young Boomers once turned to drugs to prompt impulses and think outside the box, today they turn to drugs to suppress their kids' impulses and keep their behavior inside the box ... Nowadays, Dennis the Menace would be on Ritalin, Charlie Brown on Prozac."

      The baby boomers are restricting the exact behavior needed to inspire creativity and originality. They are afraid of what our generation can accomplish when allowed to think their own thoughts.

    2. The Newsweek special issue provides information about the creature parents will be sculpting.

      In today's society you no longer raise a child, but sculpt it into whatever you want it to be.

    3. At the schools and colleges where the next leadership class is being bred, one finds not angry revolutionaries, despondent slackers, or dark cynics but the Organization Kid.

      Although this sounds good, I think today's society needs angry revolutionists to help combat problems. Organization won't fix the job market, the state of public schools, the cost of college tuition, or any other problems America is facing today.

    4. The Gap's television ads don't show edgy individualists; they show perky conformists, a bunch of happy kids all wearing the same clothes and all swing-dancing the same moves.

      We are selling conformist ideals and it is scary.

    5. Not only at Princeton but also in the rest of the country young people today are more likely to defer to and admire authority figures.

      This is also surprising due to the backlash America's police force has been facing.

    6. The authors paint a picture of incredibly wholesome youths who will correct the narcissism and nihilism of their Boomer parents.

      This is not what you hear from the baby boomers themselves. They usually describe the youth today in completely opposite terms.

    7. The amount of time spent watching TV declined by 23 percent. Meanwhile, the amount of time spent studying increased by 20 percent and the amount of time spent doing organized sports increased by 27 percent. Drive around your neighborhood.

      The author points out that free time for children of Gen X-Millennials decreased and was replaced by activities to further their future careers. This could also explain the Princeton students ideals and lifestyles.

    8. It is this elite that I am primarily reporting on in this article, rather than the whole range of young people across the demographic or SAT spectrum. It should also be said, though, that the young elite are not entirely unlike the other young; they are the logical extreme of America's increasingly efficient and demanding sorting-out process,

      The author clarifies his student subjects in this article as the elite and extreme form of today's generations. This helps explain why the students have a more optimistic view on today's job market.

    9. Many of the students were upset, but not enough to protest. "It wasn't rational to buck authority once you found out what the penalties were," one student journalist told me. "The university said they would suspend you from school for a year." A prudential ethos indeed.

      The colleges are somewhat to blame for this lack of empathy and participation from the students because of the strict punishments they enforce when someone steps out of line.

    10. Aaron Friedberg, who teaches international relations, said, "It's very rare to get a student to challenge anything or to take a position that's counter to what the professor says."

      This could also hint at the students' apathy. Although the author makes this sound like a great achievement, it really concerns me that the majority of college students today have no opinions of their own and don't fight for their right to say what they want. The author describes them as "goal-orientated" and future leaders but they're missing the compassion and drive that is needed to help change society.

    11. They're not trying to buck the system; they're trying to climb it, and they are streamlined for ascent.

      This could be used as a counter argument for the Huffington post article.

    12. Everyone I spoke to felt confident that he or she could get a good job after graduation.

      I think that this is just rich kid thinking because no other article has any optimism regarding the job market for millennials.

    1. he has sharp features, a gentle voice, and an upright, stiff gait. Though he is a millennial, he has a slightly ageless quality

      Seemingly healthy than what fast food/junk food does to you.

    2. Soylent isn’t coming for our Sunday potlucks. It’s coming for our frozen quesadillas.

      The replacement for fast food

    3. Drinking Soylent was saving him time and money: his food costs had dropped from four hundred and seventy dollars a month to fifty.

      Economically better off

    4. He tried out his own version of “Super Size Me,” living on McDonald’s dollar meals and five-dollar pizzas from Little Caesars

      Without a balance of foods it's impossible to be healthy.

    5. Rhinehart compiled a list of thirty-five nutrients required for survival.

      Only 35 to survive

    6. He began to think that food was an inefficient way of getting what he needed to survive.

      Many people today take supplements to get the nutrients they actually need or don't need.

    1. Hayward came to consider Vaillant as “the embodiment of healthy aging—mentally, emotionally, and everything. He’s the person we’d all hope to end up to be.”But Vaillant’s closest friends and family tell a very different story, of a man plagued by distance and strife in his relationships. “George is someone who holds things in,” says the psychiatrist James Barrett Jr., his oldest friend. “I don’t think he has many confidants. I would call George someone who has a problem with intimacy.”

      Interesting to see the difference of how others vs. his own family few Vaillant.

    2. According to Dr. Vaillant’s model of adaptations, the very way we deal with reality is by distorting it—and we do this unconsciously. When we start pulling at this thread, an awfully big spool of thoughts and questions begins to unravel onto the floor.

      also known as overthinking

    3. temperamental “set points” for happiness—a predisposition to stay at a certain level of happiness—account for a large, but not overwhelming, percentage of our well-being.

      a mindset to stay a certain level of happiness is productive for long-term happiness

    4. marriage and faith lead to happiness (or it could be that happy people are more likely to be married and spiritual)

      marriage and faith are positive factors

    5. that money does little to make us happier once our basic needs are met;

      only need minimum money for living

    6. How is it that children are often found to be a source of “negative affect” (sadness, anger)—yet people identify children as their greatest source of pleasure?

      I agree with this statement-- parents say that their kids stress them out but would not trade them for anything.

    7. Ask a Dane, and you will hear “Det kunne være værre (It could be worse).” “Danes have consistently low (and indubitably realistic) expectations for the year to come,” a team of Danish scholars concluded. “Year after year they are pleasantly surprised to find that not everything is getting more rotten in the state of Denmark.”

      Low expectations are more likely to be met = not dissapointed

    8. But what does it mean, really, to be happier?

      Thesis -- What does it mean to be happier?

    9. positive emotions make us more vulnerable than negative ones. One reason is that they’re future-oriented.

      I had never considered how positive emotions make us feel vulnerable.

    10. Last October, I watched him give a lecture to Seligman’s graduate students on the power of positive emotions—awe, love, compassion, gratitude, forgiveness, joy, hope, and trust (or faith). “The happiness books say, ‘Try happiness. You’ll like it a lot more than misery’

      Making the choice to think positively makes a difference.

    11. For example, while he allows that, in mortality rates, the inner-city men at age 68 to 70 resembled the Terman and Harvard cohorts at 78 to 80, he says that most of the difference can be explained by less education, more obesity, and greater abuse of alcohol and cigarettes.

      Less education, more obesity, greater alcohol and cigarettes = higher motility rate

    12. “It does have to do with hitting bottom. Someone sleeping under the elevated-train tracks can at some point recognize that he’s an alcoholic, but the guy getting stewed every night at a private club may not.”

      Hitting rock bottom is needed to recognize your problem sometimes.

    13. industriousness in childhood—as indicated by such things as whether the boys had part-time jobs, took on chores, or joined school clubs or sports teams—predicted adult mental health better than any other factor, including family cohesion and warm maternal relationships.

      In other words, if someone felt productive in their childhood, they have better adult mental health.

    14. “That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”

      It is powerful to read this study conclusion that relationships are the only thing that really matter.

    15. Again and again, Vaillant has returned to his major preoccupations. One is alcoholism

      I agree that alcoholism is a very detrimental disease that can often destroy a person's life.

    16. He also found that personality traits assigned by the psychiatrists in the initial interviews largely predicted who would become Democrats (descriptions included “sensitive,” “cultural,” and “introspective”) and Republicans (“pragmatic” and “organized”).

      I think that it is cool that the researchers were able to predict the participant's political stand-point.

    17. What factors don’t matter? Vaillant identified some surprises.

      I was surprised as well at the list of factors that don't matter.

    1. The National Domestic Workers Alliance isn’t out to end domestic work, but by calling for fair standards and better wages, its members are saying that the work they do is as valuable as any other kind of work, and that it is not the “natural” place of women, mainly women of color and immigrant women, to clean up after others.

      Women shouldn't be forced into domestic work just because they have traditionally been portrayed as cookers and cleaners. If they do choose to pursue domestic work, though, they should be treated fairly and paid appropriate wages for their labor. It shouldn't be expected that women will clean for cheap - it's a job that should have certain regulations.

    2. the decision to hire women as teachers was made, as the nation moved to providing public schools, because women were cheaper—and politicians and public intellectuals concealed that reasoning by portraying women as natural carers, morally superior angels.

      The amount of women hired as teachers may not be due to their ability to care or nurture more than men (which is still sexist), it may just be that they're cheaper to hire.

    3. It is, of course, the argument of the Right that women freely choose lower-paid work because they prefer caring professions or more free time to spend with their children.

      Sometimes women are forced to take lower paid jobs, though, because other industries won't hire them. Plus, it is society that has made occupations like a librarian a woman's job and truck driving a man's job. These jobs can be done by either gender, and individuals shouldn't be restricted to occupations that are traditionally held by one sex.

    4. the retail behemoth exploited the specific skills of Southern white Christian women going to work outside the home for the first time as much as their willingness to work for little pay because they’d never been paid before.

      Many industries take advantage of inexperienced women and pay them less due to their gender. Many of these women don't even realize the inequality happening right before their eyes because they have never worked outside of home before. On top of this, they don't always have the resources to compare their pay/treatment to that of their co-workers.

    5. even in retail, women make only 90 percent of what men make.

      Women consistently make less than men.

    6. Some 60 percent of the jobs lost in the public sector were held by women, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. And women have regained only 12 percent of the jobs lost during the recession, while men have regained 63 percent of the jobs they lost.

      This fact shows the undeniable inequality between men and women in the workforce. Women lost more jobs than men during the recession, and women were also far less likely to gain those jobs back.

    7. women in the restaurant industry earn 83 cents to a man’s dollar.

      Even though food service is a female-dominated industry, women continue to earn less than their male counterparts.

    1. , a 45-year-old woman who says her husband is unable to perform sexually, has been using the personals for the past two years to find ''playmates'' to consort with during her husband's frequent business trips

      Is this okay or does this present an issue? Also gives another reason for online dating

    2. think she'll be just a bit heavier than she looks in her pictures, since she did not list her weight anywhere. I think we will get along very quickly. It would be out of line to assume that we're going to have sex, but I think it's a definite possibility

      Different expectations from different people; some are more realistic (like this) than others

    3. r was the problem that, as a way of making conversation, she had mentioned a conflict she was having with a neighbor -- did the lawyer think she was grubbing for free legal advice? Or could it have been her personality? ''On a first date I laugh, I smile, but I don't crack jokes,'' she reflected. ''So I was thinking, Maybe he wanted someone who was fun immediately.'

      Commonly people doubt themselves after rejection or they question why there wasn't a second date. A radio station I listen to will actually call that person and try to set up a second date

    4. For younger people, who grew up with instant-messaging programs, e-mail will often lead to an instant-message exchange (or several), followed by a meeting; those over 30 tend to prefer the phone.

      generational gap, however there is variety in the ages of users

    1. pointed out that ‘70 per cent of the antibiotics used in the United States now are not used on people, they’re used on animals in agriculture, because we keep them in such inhumane, overcrowded conditions’. He then reeled off a list of UN-backed statistics: ‘18 per cent of our greenhouse gas emissions come from meat production. We’re also using something like 1,500 gallons of water to produce just one pound of meat. Meat takes up about 70 per cent of our arable lands.’

      These stats do show plausible reasons why genetic meat is needed

    2. pointed out that ‘70 per cent of the antibiotics used in the United States now are not used on people, they’re used on animals in agriculture, because we keep them in such inhumane, overcrowded conditions’. He then reeled off a list of UN-backed statistics: ‘18 per cent of our greenhouse gas emissions come from meat production. We’re also using something like 1,500 gallons of water to produce just one pound of meat. Meat takes up about 70 per cent of our arable lands.’

      These stats do show plausible reasons why genetic meat is needed

    3. A scientific landmark was sold to us in the manner of a glitzy product launch, a piece of corporate puff.

      The first sign that this product will turn to the Quantity>Quality

    4. commercial production of meat that has been grown in a lab rather than reared and slaughtered.

      This meat will eventually become less animal and more product

    5. first proper portion of cultured meat, a beef burger created by Mark Post,

      I'm against genetically creating meat because I believe this will turn to creating the most meat for the cheapest price, and ruin the quality

    1. the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

      No, it doesn't??? There is no way in the female body "to shut that whole thing down." The female body does not work that way.

    2. All too often, these seemingly smaller issues go unchecked because there are so many more serious issues facing women.

      There are many important issues that are recognized but I think that the smaller day-to-day issues need as much focus as the bigger issues.

    3. Other times, white feminists are simply dismissive of these issues.

      White feminists should not dismiss the issues that have to do with women of color. Feminism is about the rights of all women, not just white women.

    1. The problem goes even beyond the corporate interests that have brought us

      Won't change anyone's mind if they are completely content with downing fast food everyday.

    2. hese include imposing a “fat tax” on caloric snacks, improving health education, regulating food and beverage advertising, limiting the foods available in public facilities, and insuring access to sidewalks and bike paths.

      Would lead to a healthier population.

    3. It has been estimated that the extra pounds carried by Americans add ninety billion dollars a year to the country’s medical spending.

      All could be avoidable

    4. Type 2 diabetes, coronary disease, hypertension, various kinds of cancers—including colorectal and endometrial—gallstones, and osteoarthritis are just some of the conditions that have been linked to excess weight.

      Back to an early annotation where people were advocating that it is alright to be heavy set. Diseases aren't fun to live with.

    5. Although nearly a billion of the world’s most impoverished citizens still suffer from too few calories

      People stuff their faces and live a stagnate life leaving them fat.

    6. To claim that some people are just meant to be fat is not quite the same as arguing that some people are just meant to be poor, but it comes uncomfortably close.

      Choices can be made to change everything. Choosing to eat like crap will make you look like crap. Choosing to make poor economic decisions will leave you in a poor scenario.

    7. Weight, by their account, is, like race or sex or bone structure, a biological trait over which individuals have no—or, in the case of fat, very limited—control.

      This is laziness

    8. For someone who is in the habit of eating a bagel a day, these extra calories translate into a weight gain of more than a pound a month.

      Not being conscious of the food you eat can guarantee that you'll find yourself out of shape while you continue the oblivious consumption.

    9. “Give them a lot and they eat a lot,”

      Mindlessly eating also an unhealthy habit when one indulges too much.

    10. The result is that as French-fry bags get bigger, so, too, do French-fry eaters.

      Personally, I don't want to throw away food which then obligates me to finish or bring it with me.

    11. supersizing.

      More food that looks like it isn't too much food, but people are just gorging themselves with fast food.

    12. “Conditioned hypereating works the same way as other ‘stimulus response’ disorders in which reward is involved, such as compulsive gambling and substance abuse.”

      Binge eating essentially. Obviously, already an unhealthy state of mind can corrupt the body.

    13. product-development expert

      None of these aspects seem to incorporate health into the equations.

    1. race, the folk wisdom turns out to be true. An African American family with the same income, family size, and other demographics as a white family will spend about 25 percent more of its income on jewelry, cars, personal care, and apparel. For the average black family, making about $40,000 a year, that amounts to $1,900 more a year than for a comparable white family. To make up the difference, African Americans spend much less on education, health care, entertainment, and home furnishings. (The same is true of Latinos.)

      Great facts, interesting way to notice how different races react/work

    1. "This is the 1990's- there's no Theo." Theo Epstein is a baseball genius. He was with the RedSox for a while now he has been with the Cubs for some years and the cubs have had a turn around and are starting to be really good.

    1. NYT won't let me highlight, but a few paragraphs down to 'the reports list America's 10 meanest cities' is a bunch of great examples, interesting

    1. Need we wonder if even for a moment it ever occurred to them that rich people have feelings, too?

      Favorite Quote

    1. changes in the autonomic nervous system

      basically the placebo effect, act angry become angry

    1. Unlike the robot yentas of yore (Match.com, OkCupid, eHarmony), which out-competed one another with claims of compatibility algorithms and secret love formulas, the only promise Tinder makes is to show you the other users in your immediate vicinity.

      Similarities/ differences between Tinder and other dating places

    1. it’s this philosophy problem where you have an ass that’s equidistant from two piles of food, and he starves to death in the middle.”

      The title finally makes sense at the end of the article

  2. Jan 2016
    1. If you squinted, you might believe you were watching a group of unusually small college players

      big comparison here

    2. Bryce Harper

      heard that name before

    3. Because of his arm, and because of his team, Jarrod has a list of things that he won't do, or can't do, by decree of his parents, who are usually thinking ahead to the next baseball game. He will not, for example, jump on a trampoline. When his friends from school hold their birthday parties at a rock-climbing facility, Jarrod does not go. He does not play pickup basketball at school, and if it is the week before a tournament, he sits out of gym class. If he goes swimming in the backyard pool, he's careful not to get sunburned or tired out. He is not allowed to skateboard or ride a scooter.

      basically he can't have fun times that can be somewhat considered dangerous

    4. Already, some use their iPods to tune out their parents in the car on the way to games.

      The reason they tune out from their parents is because they need an escape from baseball for just a short period of time before they start again. Another reason, they don't want to hear the criticism of their parents about how bad they performed

    5. A pesky wind caused the infield dirt to swirl.

      the author's word choice to describe the weather and how it affects the field is perfect. His imagery allows me to visualize what is going on.

    6. There was a time when being a baseball parent

      the author makes a shift from the player and focuses on the parent in the sport. However this effects their child's performance too. And after all the child had to learn the sport and how to act from someone in their life.

    7. as young as 6

      This is very common, 6 is the perfect age for one to start teaching their kid the mental and techniques of baseball, knowing they will be a great player.

    8. kids are basically isolated from "normal" childhood in order to refine their physical gifts

      The author refers to this "normal" childhood many times because he wants to emphasize that these kids only focused on this one thing for their entire life, but for what? To make it big, because sacrificing a "normal" childhood would get them there.

    1. And it privileges the voice over the face, when the voice and the face are equally significant channels in the same system.

      This blows my mind, in our society the main form of communication is talking, but it really isnt the most reliable or natural

    2. What that says is that this is an accessible skill.

      I would love to learn

    3. Imagine if there were a switch that all of us had, to turn off the expressions on our face at will

      This would be horrible, it would be way to easy to manipulate others

    4. a look of utter despair flashed across her face so quickly that it was almost imperceptible.

      The implications of this are amazing, skills like this could be useful in every field

    5. FACS

      There are classes and certifications on this, I would love to take them

    6. Happiness, for instance, is essentially A.U. six and twelve– contracting the muscles that raise the cheek (orbicularis oculi, pars orbitalis) in combination with the zygomatic major, which pulls up the corners of the lips

      I find it amazing that these guys were able to create a set of rules that outline every conceivable human emotion and the movements that go with it

    7. “Oooh! You’ve got a fantastic thirty-nine. That’s one of the best I’ve ever seen. It’s genetic. There should be other members of your family who have this heretofore unknown talent. You’ve got it, you’ve got it.” He laughed again. “You’re in a position to flash it at people. See, you should try that in a singles bar!

      This guy sounds like a mad genius

    8. Ekman and Friesen identified about three thousand that did seem to mean something, until they had catalogued the essential repertoire of human emotion.

      This was a revolutionary concept, and its amazing that they were able to actually catalog the human face and its emotions

    9. ‘I’ve got to learn the anatomy.’ ” Friesen and Ekman then combed through medical textbooks that outlined each of the facial muscles, and identified every distinct muscular movement that the face could make

      An alliance of psychology, anatomy and intuition

    10. If a male horse, for instance, had lost to a mare in his first or second year, he would be ruined if he went to the gate with a mare next to him in the lineup.

      This is some mentalist stuff

    11. This is a natural and strong heuristic that has the potential to revolutionize human society (if everyone could learn it)

    12. Amazing sign of the infleunce of nature

    13. I find it so interesting how this is so natural, yet a foreign concept for most

    14. This just shows how powerful, instinct and inborn ability is

    15. Its amazing how contradictory this is to current events

    1. I hope the pea coat still fits him next winter.

      The overall all message I get from this is that the narrator (father) is that as society changes kids seem to have different views on whats cool and whats not cool depending on fashion. As another factor, some kids care more about their appearance now than they used to because of more pressure to dress like everyone else.

    2. I was flirting with disaster, publicly.

      Instead of hiding it he was trying to show everybody his shirt to see if anybody even knew what it meant or could figure it out.

    3. The thing that surprises me the most, however, is that in retrospect I appear to have felt confident or comfortable enough, in the eyes of the world, to wear that shirt—many times

      Caring about what other people think of you is a big part of growing up and this author had an easy time not caring. I was the opposite and cared too much.

    4. I find this memory

      The authors in the past two articles I read were all very descriptive about certain things and this author follows that pattern.

    1. That's a really deep and strong point, I've never thought of the emotions behind conducting until this moment, and it all seems to make a bit more sense.

    2. When I went to a conducting class, every move requires so much thought and precision and I remember just going through the different motions and when we got back to the school we would take turns conducting a piece.

    1. TheonlywayTDCcanbesureofcatchingthemistoloadthesoftwareontoaphoneandpunchthephonekeysoverandoveragain,followingalengthyscriptofatleast200instructions.

      for most people, this kind of task would be very boring and sooner or later they'll start to cut corners because it is boring and they just want to get the job done and that is where mistakes are made.

    2. heslowlyconceivedabusinessplan:manycompaniesstruggletofindworkerswhocanperformspecific,oftentedioustasks,likedataentryorsoftwaretesting;someautisticpeoplewouldbeexceptionallygoodatthosetasks.

      they would be a great for a job like that because kids with autism tend to be very systematic

    3. Heslidafingeralongtheatlas,movingfromboxtobox,comparingthesourcewithhisson’scopy.Everynumbermatched.Larshadreproducedtheentirespread,frommemory,withoutanerror.“Iwasstunned,absolutely,”Sonnetoldme.

      to show how extensive kids can be with what they fixate on

    4. LarsknewthetrainschedulesofallofDenmark’smajorroutes.

      related back to first article about how autistic kids fixate on certain things

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    1. He admitted that there was little discussion about intellectual matters outside class.

      This means less critical thinking about important topics such as the movements discussed above.

    2. "I just had an appointment with my best friend at seven this morning,"

      Does this apply to a kid that might go to a college that isn't as pristine as Yale?

    3. I asked around about this and was told that most students have no time to read newspapers, follow national politics, or get involved in crusades.

      The college kids are so focused on their own education that they don't bother getting involved in important cultural events. This can cause apathy in politics and restrict the amount of beneficial change brought on by the people of America. (eg: Civil Rights movement, Vietnam war protests, feminist protests, racial protests)

    4. she could afford that much

      I feel like he's being ironic, considering that is only 5 hours of sleep

    5. One young man told me that he had to schedule appointment times for chatting with his friends.

      The author shows how structured the life of a Princeton college kid is. This increase in organization could be due to technology.

    1. Churchill quote about democracy being the worst system of government, except for all the others. I mean, we all know geoengineering’s bad, now tell me what’s better

      I like how he put this in with how geoengineering is bad, but it's better than any alternative.

    2. I drove back to Stanford, mindful that the carbon dioxide emanating from my tailpipe would persist in the atmosphere for hundreds of years

      Irony to what the article is about

    3. There is no solving the problem. There is no solving the problem. All it is is slowing the symptoms.”

      This is really scary to thing about because of how true it is. There is no solution to global warming, there's just slowing it down.

    4. If “turning down the sun” sounds like a patently bad idea for plant life, Caldeira has run the numbers on that too

      It sounds to me as though this idea was well thought out and has taken many things into consideration rather than just the climate, to me it sounds like a good experiment that may be a possible solution

    1. According to Teodor Postolache, a psychiatrist and the director of the Mood and Anxiety Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, a flurry of other studies, several conducted by his own team, offers further support of T. gondii’s link to higher rates of suicidal behavior

      If infected people are more inclined to commit suicide, it could be the reason cats eat their dead owners. The parasite would then get back to the belly of the cat.

    2. Twelve of 44 schizophrenia patients who underwent MRI scans, the team found, had reduced gray matter in the brain—and the decrease occurred almost exclusively in those who tested positive for T. gondii.

      This hints that the T. gondii parasite could trigger shcizophrenia in genetically susceptible people

    1. but it wasn't often he had been knocked out on his pitch

      The author is implying that this particular moment proves that the player's time was coming to an end in his career. Because when your best pitch can be hit and not only hit but crushed out of the park, that;s when you begin to realize you're skill is fading and it's time to give it up.

    1. Women make less money, exert less political influence, have their clitorises cut out (actually really truly — Google it), and are widely thought of as property and treated like poop. Privilege is real,

      really true

    1. In this world, peace of mind is a utopian concept.

      For some reason, it took me a while to understand what the author was arguing, but this sentences just clarifies her argument completely.She is arguing that AIDs awareness has not really solve the problem but had just made things worse by causing anxiety in people.

    1. You can become special by working really hard for a long time.

      Despite the author's sarcastic and condescending tone, they end the article with some hopeful advice no staying happy and fulfilled in life.

    2. Lucy, on the other hand, finds herself constantly taunted by a modern phenomenon: Facebook Image Crafting.

      Generation Y's lack of success is made worse by the fact that other people's success dominates social media sites.

    3. They often feel entitled to a level of respect and rewards that aren't in line with their actual ability and effort levels,

      This might have a role in the development oof welfare?

    1. Schulz

      The discouragement in this paragraph is something that I think most children have to deal with. The thought process is that I you're not the best you either give up or you care about what people think of your abilities. If you are the best, there is constant pressure to maintain your position because you also care what people think.

    2. When you feel yourself smile, you imagine a cartoon of smiling, not the complete skin-and-nose-and-hair package

      This idea of universal cartoon expressions begs the question of whether or not people are sincere when they converse with one another. Of course it depends on the topic and the people, as well as a plethora of other things. But, when you stop and think about it, there is a lack of sympathy in most conversations. The more one creates artificial feelings, the more they create a cartoon image of themselves.

    1. All feminists are angry instead of passionate.

      Wrong perception of feminists that society has.

    2. “You’re some kind of feminist, aren’t you?” His tone made it clear that to be a feminist was undesirable. I was not being a good woman. I remained silent, stewing. I thought, “Isn’t it obvious I am a feminist, albeit not a very good one?”

      This reminds me of my Disney history project I did last year, one of the con's of Disney were the Disney princesses stories. Each story has a quiet younger, obedient girl who happens to fall in love with a powerful man(exception in Aladdin).

    1. called electric tubes

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    2. cacophony

      The author becomes very descriptive here, I think the reason for this is to gain a visual of just how diverse airports are on a daily basis

    3. frenetic opposite of Alfred

      This part made me stop and think about just who Sir Alfred is. It was almost like a point where you shouldn't pass until you know what it said

    1. That's the "absent-minded professor," who forgets to shave, or eat, or even perhaps look where he's going while he's thinking about some interesting question

      I find this funny but also interesting. There is a sense of comedy through the article.

    2. No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else.

      That is something that I could agree with.

    3. So could it be that procrastination isn't always bad?

      I believe that at certain moments in time, this could be valid depending on the situation.

    1. number of psychopathic attributes were actually more common in business leaders than in so-called disturbed criminals—attributes such as superficial charm, egocentricity, persuasiveness, lack of empathy, independence, and focus.

      cool

    2. Psychopaths, without batting an eye, are perfectly happy to chuck the fat guy over the side.

      Yet another interesting, study.

    1. the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans

      Earlier in the passage he compares humans to animals, that we are similar in the ability to feel happiness. This short statement gives humans a unique quality that sets us apart