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...while you’re making breakfast or are you a slave to your desk until you’ve got one? (i.e is it like turning on a light bulb or pounding in a nail?)Steven Pinker: Nail, definitely nail. I notice things but I only understand them when I try to write about them.2. FM: Speaking of analogies, yours make your theories very accessible. Where do those come from?SP: I’m actually trying to study that and I think, at least I notice in myself a process that I call analogical reminding. It was first...
...animal that should eat a mouse or two, then, if they're lucky, another mouse or two later, if it's a good day. But they can also go 24 hours without food. In reality, that would be just fine, but that's hard for us [to understand], because we like to think of them - and ourselves - having nice warm tummies. Two meals a day is really to suit the human experience...
...varsity football squad’s practice field, where a team manager had set up a table with hundreds of Dixie cups full of water on it. When asked if he could spare just two of them, he looked at us incredulously, as if he couldn’t understand how we could be complaining of thirst after running two slants and a short post route. So what if his team was on its second practice of the day in full pads under the still-scorching September...
...came down to three opportunities [to qualify] and this was our last chance,” Watson said. “That’s our river. Even though we’re out there every day, we still don’t understand...
...muscles that move us. It pays attention to the detail of these organs’ functions and the beauty of their synchronized relationships. In her performance, Porter often emphasized this theme to make a statement about the importance of working and moving together and being able to understand one another in the greater scheme of things. The poems also bring to center stage the importance of naming not only muscles, but also other aspects of our life. Nomenclature and identification turn out to be an important underlying theme in the collection, sub-textually posing the age-old question...