Excerpts from Book that I read

The study of time perception is obviously hampered by the inability to identify any organ which is obviously responsible for it. Whereas vision or hearing science can begin with the physical properties of the sense organ subserving visual or auditory perception, something which has aided both the psychology and physiology of vision and audition, a person interested in time perception has no such clear starting point. Nevertheless, an extremely influential idea has been that there is a type of “organ” for time, in the form of an “internal clock” of sorts. In the English-speaking world, the name of Hudson Hoagland is usually associated with the concept that humans possess some sort of ‘chemical clock’ a notion which was precursor of internal clock models of historical precedence in this area actually belongs to Marcel Francois, a pupil of the famous French psychologist Pieron, who in 1927 published a study in which he used diathermy (the passage of high-frequency electric current through the body) to induce bodily heating, and observe the effects of time judgments. ` Page 15/16

. . . . After Aristotle died, in 322 B.C.E, many of his students formed the Peripatetic school, a group of wandering lecturers named after the Greek ‘peripatetikos’ (walking). The ancient sages of India and Nepal would stay at home during the rainy season, but as soon as it ended, they too would be in motion, thinking and teaching. The Buddha, Jesus, Augustine, Rousseau, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Emerson, Thoreau, James, Rimbaud -- all of them, and many more, were walkers. Thoreau, one of the truly greatest wanderer-thinkers, writes, “Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move my thoughts begin to flow.” The twentieth-century analytic philosopher Ledwig Wittgenstein often visited his collaborator and friend Bertrand Russell in the early evenings, and Wittgenstein would pace the floor of Russell’s apartment for hours, cogitating and ambulating. As the evening grew late, he would tell Russell that he planned to commit suicide when he left, presumably when his feet came to rest. So Russell would urge him to stay, on the move -- alive. ~ Page132

Among soldiers in the 1970s, there was no such thing as a sky hook. It was a fictional item used to send rookies on a wild goose chase.

books.google.com/books/about/Beyond_Good_and_Evil.html?id=yas8AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false * 'I have done that,' says the memory. 'I cannot have done that' -- says my pride, and remains adamant. At last memory yields. * It is not the strength but the duration of exalted sensations which makes exalted men. * He who attains his ideal by that very fact transcends it. * What? A great man? I always see only the actor of his own ideal. * Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzel_Hablik nietzsche.holtof.com/reader/index.html

Consider the elements of chlorine and sodium. Chlorine is a poison, and a major component of some of the horrible gases used in the First World War. Sodium in hydro-antagonistic -- toss some in a lake and you get an explosion. If you’re a water-containing life form handling either element, you’re dealing with a pretty brutal item Studying their structures, melting points, atomic weights, and all the rest could give no hint of what you’d have if you combined these two elements. But bingo: Let an atom of one bond with an atom of the other, and you get sodium chloride -- common table salt. Now, no longer does an explosion rattle the neighborhood when this new compound meets water. Precisely the opposite happens. As part of salt it readily dissolves, leaving the water as transparent and unruffled as ever. ~ Page 163

To the Romans, whatever life brought, good or bad, was chance -- ‘fors.’ Good luck creates fortunes for the ‘fortunate’ In Latin that ‘bh’ was softened further, to become ‘ferre.’ That gives us ‘fertile.’ But as a suffix, ‘-fer’ is used in all sorts of words ‘-suffer’ is to bear pain, ‘transfer’ is to carry a load from one side to the other, ‘prefer’ is to weigh more on one side than the other, ‘refer’ is to hand the burden to someone else, ‘proffer’ is to hold out the burden as a gift, ‘concer’ is to share it with other people, ‘differ’ is to carry it in an unconventional way and ‘defer’ is to put it down with the intention of picking it up some other time. ~ Page 37

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Average income per capita and average happiness, Japan, 1958-2004. Data from Veenhoven, 2005, and Heston et al., 2006

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An 1851 editorial cartoonist imagines an overcrowded London in the future. th British essyist Thomas Malthus raised the possible dangers of overpopulation; his ideas helped Darwin formulate his ideas of natural selection