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è morta la buonissima gatta. L’aveva portata un muratore tredici anni prima, nuova e garantita come gatto. C’era la guerra e scendeva nei rifugi con i grandi. Aveva molti nomi, ogni anno uno nuovo: Genoviefa come la sorella di De Sanctis, Ciandramisa perché il suo famoso pelo soriano color nuvola quando si sedeva in una angolo buio era tutto chiaro come la luna, che in sanscrito si dice ciandra (e...
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operant conditioning chamber
theanatomyofmelancholy: Behaviorist psychologist B.F. Skinner was born March 20, 1904.  He studied conditioning, including superstition in pigeons, and believed in experimental analysis.  He also employed creative use of operant conditioning chambers, otherwise known as Skinner boxes.  I don’t know about you, but that term makes me want to stay home all day and make dioramas.
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jessb: We attract and distract.
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jessb: A list of favorite maelstroms: Moskstraume, Corryvreckan, Old Sow. And how wikipedia will destroy my life.
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si tratta di un sorriso dove confluiscono tutti i temi della sua opera di scrittore: contiene, in superficie, confusione, impaccio, una sorta di sbigottito deglutimento di recluta, che coprono appena una tremula richiesta di perdono, un’ammissione d’inettitudine a vivere, di completa vulnerabilità, e un fondo di sconfinata, disastrosa tenerezza verso le minime cose del creato, di comprensione per...
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“D’après la chronique de Matthiew Paris, les abbés de la puissante abbaye de...”
– Alain Schnapp, La conquete de l’archeologie (via athanasius)
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January 3, 1903 Am writing an essay on the life-history of insects and have abandoned the idea of writing on ‘How Cats Spend their Time.’ (W. N. P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man)
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“We can’t say for certain that insects are the smoking gun, but we believe they...”
– The Guardian (via balnibarbi)
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Listentodemandlove:  Beryl Davis &...
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