“The BP Effort Feels Way Too Much Like This [Humor]” plus 3 more |
- The BP Effort Feels Way Too Much Like This [Humor]
- Humor finds the Holocaust in Yann Martels Beatrice and Virgil
- Pessimism, humor infuse Chester Arnold's art
- Laugh Your Way To Retirement
| The BP Effort Feels Way Too Much Like This [Humor] Posted: 04 Jun 2010 06:27 PM PDT # humor Watching BP's continued, repeated failures would almost be funny if it weren't so gut-wrenching. If only there were a perfect analogy for how it felt watching the unraveling, in hilarious comic strip form. Oh, look, here's one! [ Penny Arcade ] More�� |
| Humor finds the Holocaust in Yann Martels Beatrice and Virgil Posted: 04 Jun 2010 05:36 PM PDT Canadian author Yann Martel remembers thinking that his breakout book, Life of Pi, published in the U.S. in 2003, was a good book, but that it was a book that no one would read. It defends religion, and mainstream novel readers are not typically religious, and it defends zoos, which is a very unpopular stance, because people see them as prisons for animals, he says. But it helped me ... |
| Pessimism, humor infuse Chester Arnold's art Posted: 04 Jun 2010 04:29 PM PDT Sonoma painter Chester Arnold frequently chooses a theme or epigraph around which to develop a body of work. His recent pictures at Catharine Clark's pivot on Immanuel Kant's famously pessimistic remark: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing strait... Chester - Immanuel Kant - England - Cheshire - Crooked Timber |
| Posted: 04 Jun 2010 11:14 AM PDT A positive effectThere is reason to believe that sense of humor continues to have a positive effect on mental health and social life, even after people have become retirees, although the positive effect on life expectancy could not be shown after the age of 75. At that point, genetics and biological aging are of greater importance, says project leader Professor Sven Svebak at NTNUs Department ... |
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