November 2010
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Dan: What is the Harry Potter movie series, in the end?
Natasha: A parable...
– ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’: Two Nerds Geek Out | The Awl
Mind the gap →
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Jonah Lehrer on the information gap theory of curiosity:
The first thing the scientists found is that curiosity obeys an inverted U-shaped curve, so that we’re most curious when we know a little about a subject (our curiosity has been piqued) but not too much (we’re still uncertain about the answer). This supports the information gap theory of curiosity, which was first developed by...
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I don’t want anyone else but sometimes, surprisingly there is someone, not the...
– Tom Stoppard, from The Real Thing
A person, according to Socrates, never chooses to act poorly or against his...
– Akrasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia