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Mañana

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Time Inconsistent Preferences”The two failures of self-control—the inclinations to procrastinate and to indulge—turn out to be rooted in the same problem: We tend to put too much weight on the here and now when evaluating the costs and benefits of …

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May 15, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Commentary, Life, Psychology | Comments Off 

The Blessings of Nails & Friendship

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“When we first met, I asked how she [Dolly Parton] kept her voice in such good nick. If Parton was ever going to blush, it was then. “Well, I just sing all the time, I guess, cos I just love to sing… ” she said. Today, she is singing with the same vi…

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May 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, Music, Quotes | Comments Off 

Digital Monument

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

” The Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands is an Internet monument dedicated to preserving the memory of all the men, women and children who were persecuted as Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and did not surviv…

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May 4, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Life, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Hack Your Brain

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Learning new things actually strengthens your brain — especially when you believe you can learn new things. It’s a virtuous circle: When you think you’re getting smarter, you study harder, making more nerve-cell connections, which in turn makes you ….

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May 4, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, Oddities, Psychology, science | Comments Off 

Why Children Get Lost Easily

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Adults readily integrate sight, sound, smell, taste and touch in their everyday lives without a second thought. But research is revealing that this is not the case with children. Two new studies hint that children under the age of eight only use one s…

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May 3, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, science | Comments Off 

Epigenetic Inheritance

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

What Genes Remember”It has long been known that an organism’s fate is not determined by genes alone. This much we can tell by observing identical twins, who over time tend to diverge both physiologically (developing differences in, say, height and post…

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April 24, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, science | Comments Off 

Let’s Spend Time Together

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“We know that the best predictor of human happiness is human relationships and the amount of time that people spend with family and friends. We know that it’s significantly more important than money and somewhat more important than health. That’s w…

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April 22, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, Psychology | Comments Off 

Blog Babies

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“It’s a dilemma many parent bloggers have begun to confront: Is it ethical to blog about my children? The attendant questions range from issues of safety - whether to use a child’s real name or post photos - to more abstract quandaries: At what point d…

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April 22, 2008 | Filed Under , Commentary, Life, Philosophy | Comments Off 

Unintended Consequences

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“The total collapse of Gabriel Torres’s life and career has distressed the few people in the AIDS Establishment aware of his plight. “It’s just one of the biggest tragedies I’ve ever seen. This is a guy who had absolutely everything going for h…

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April 12, 2008 | Filed Under , Commentary, Health, Life, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Happy Blog Hopping

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“They found that regular blog reading can become “an internet ritual,” with the content secondary to the process of checking for new posts. The researchers said this is much like the routine of checking e-mail regardless of whether a new message is exp…

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April 10, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, Psychology | Comments Off 

My Big Fat Botox Wedding

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“As wedding season approaches, another crop of brides is currently immersed in a torturous process of self-improvement. It is hardly breaking news that women face daily pressure to look good, but most of the time this pressure is a background hum: mild…

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April 9, 2008 | Filed Under , Isms, Life, Style, Women | Comments Off 

Soap Character Steals Husband

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Looking back, it’s funny the things you notice just before your life is about to change - nothing. Everything seems fine, quite beautiful, in fact. I am a little tired though, and I know something is not quite right. The distance between us and the un…

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April 9, 2008 | Filed Under , Life | Comments Off 

Marriage Doesn’t Always Mean Sharing

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Bed Yes, Housework No”A new University of Michigan study concludes that having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women. For men, it’s the opposite: A wife saves her husband about an hour of housework a week, the national s…

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April 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Isms, Life, Men, Women | Comments Off 

Marriage Doesn’t Always Mean Sharing

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Bed Yes, Housework No”A new University of Michigan study concludes that having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women. For men, it’s the opposite: A wife saves her husband about an hour of housework a week, the national s…

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April 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Isms, Life, Men, Women | Comments Off 

Beggars Can Be Orators

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Whose was this extraordinary idea? Tony Wright’s–the 47-year-old manager of Ron Eager House. “If,” he said, “you’re a rough sleeper, to get benefit they make you go through hoops because you have no address. You’re ten minutes late, you don’t get it….

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March 31, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Language, Life, Philosophy, Urbanities | Comments Off 


Maybe We Like the Same Books!

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Marco Roth, an editor at the magazine n+1, said: “I think sometimes it’s better if books are just books. It’s part of the romantic tragedy of our age that our partners must be seen as compatible on every level.” Besides, he added, “sometimes…

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March 30, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Commentary, Life | Comments Off 

Second Lives

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“[I]f there is anything more boring than minute detail about miscreants capitalizing on bugs in the system or terrorists whose “bombs,” at worst, shut down servers, I don’t know what it is. Even Second Life resident Anshe Chung, who parlayed her virtua…

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March 24, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Dreamscape, Life | Comments Off 


Have You Seen It Yet?

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“To say that I am a patient man would be an understatement. Seventeen years sat watching and waiting on the shores of Loch Ness for one decent sighting of the monster has to be considered dedication in anybody’s eyes. To me, however, it is more a dream…

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March 24, 2008 | Filed Under , Dreamscape, Life, Oddities | Comments Off 

Break Took a Little Longer

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

A strange thing the flu is. The eeriest aspect of it was when the fever ran over 39 degrees and I ceased dreaming. I never realized that to cook up dreams, an optimum temperature is required. I didn’t dream for several days, while I slept or was in bed…

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March 22, 2008 | Filed Under , Dreamscape, Life, Oddities | Comments Off 


Wickedpedia

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“It was a boy meets girl story for the web 2.0 generation. But when it all turned sour the recriminations resounded through the blogosphere while the dirty laundry was put up for sale on eBay. She was Rachel Marsden, 33, the Canadian right-wing politi…

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March 4, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, Oddities | Comments Off 

Unplugged: Secular Sabbath

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“On my first weekend last fall, I eagerly shut it all down on Friday night, then went to bed to read. (I chose Saturday because my rules include no television, and I had to watch the Giants on Sunday). I woke up nervous, eager for my laptop. That forbi…

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March 4, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Life, Style, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Mission Wolf

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“By 1986 it became apparent that there were more wolves living in small cages across the United States than there were wild wolves. When we discovered that many captive wolves and wolf dogs were dead before the age of three d…

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March 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Life | Comments Off 

Study For Metamorphosis

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Jeremy Bailenson and Nick Yee of Stanford University had this and other classic studies in mind when they started wondering about the effect of being able to alter one’s appearance. They weren’t going to study wardrobe choices, however. Their quarry i…

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February 25, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Dreamscape, Life, Psychology | Comments Off 

The New Black

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Mourning, Melancholia & Depression”Darian Leader, in his compelling and important new book, suggests we need to redefine depression “as a set of symptoms that derive from complex and always different human stories”. He states that “to treat a depre…

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February 22, 2008 | Filed Under Books, Life, Psychology | Comments Off 

Siren’s Call

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“MUSIC has the power to delight the listener, improve well-being and uplift the soul. But sounds have more malign uses too. The beauty of the music produced by the Sirens of ancient Greek legend drew unwary sailors to their doom on the rocks. And in Br…

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February 18, 2008 | Filed Under Health, Life, Music, Psychology, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Valentine’s Day

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Cupid’s Private AffairsI make a distinction between collective calendar celebrations like the equinox, midsummer’s night, X-mas and personal, intimate ones - like celebrating love. I don’t want or like to have the latter orchestrated, especially not…

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February 16, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Life | Comments Off 

Going Dental

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Visit to the dentist’s office today, at 3.20 PM. Solace is, time will pass. It will be all behind me in a couple of hours. Moreover, it is only a check-up. And, I have an excuse to do absolutely NOTHING before ánd after, the entire day. Cleaning the m…

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February 13, 2008 | Filed Under Health, Life, Oddities | Comments Off 

Familiarity Breeds Contempt?

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“”[N]egativity is a normal aspect of close relationships that include a great deal of daily contact.” Rather than breeding unhappy couples and ill health, the increase in negativity could be a normal part of relationships. “Because we found that patter…

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February 11, 2008 | Filed Under Life, Psychology | Comments Off 


Back to My Roots

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

In order to write my own commentary with some profundity ánd fun, I’ve come to the conclusion that I simply must resort to my mother tongue, which is Dutch. Therefor I have started another blog, Taalbank, to which I want to point Dutch (reading) visit…

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February 11, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Life, Oddities | Comments Off 

Year of the Rat

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Happy New Year!USAToday: China Winter Ends In Time for Holiday, February 6, 2008Wikipedia: Chinese New YearArt: Dragon, not dated, Nguyen Tuan Cuong

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February 6, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Life | Comments Off 

Go Slow, Beat Fast

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

A clock drops beads to measure time in five-minute increments.”Slow is also an idea, it seems, whose time has come. “When I was researching the book,” he continued, “if you Googled slow movement, there wasn’t anything. As a growing cultural qua…

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February 4, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Life, Philosophy, Style | Comments Off 


Plastic Fantastic: Your Brain

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Stretch the plastic. For decades, scientists assumed that humans were born with all the brain cells they’d ever have. Then, in the 1970s, researchers showed that new brain cells and neural pathways form through the end of life. “This was the beginning …

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February 2, 2008 | Filed Under Health, Life, Psychology | Comments Off 


Don’t be a Couch Potato

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Leading a sedentary lifestyle may make us genetically old before our time, a study suggests. An active lifestyle has been linked to lower rates of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer. However, the latest research suggests that inactivit…

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January 28, 2008 | Filed Under Health, Life, Style | Comments Off 

Hail to the Bear!

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

A campaign has been launched to build a permanent memorial to a bear which spent much of its life in Scotland - after fighting in World War II. The bear - named Voytek - was adopted in the Middle East by Polish troops in 1943, becoming much more than…

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January 25, 2008 | Filed Under Life, Oddities | Comments Off 

Deep into that Darkness Peering

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

The Esquire is dead. He was found by his parents, yesterday. I hadn’t seen him in a year. He turned up at the public vernissage of my novel in October 2002 and pursued friendship ever since. At some point, some fifteen months later, my resistance was …

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January 24, 2008 | Filed Under Life | Comments Off 

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