The New Yorker, 2007-04-16, 2008-07-28

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Amy Cutler - "Dwelling"

"Surprise Hit: Sh-h-h" / Michael Schulman: exclaustrated member

"There and Back Again" / Nick Paumgarten
__ Although there are... occasional exceptions (inner cities, Princeton), in this equation you’re trading time for space, miles for square feet.
__ “We are very good at predicting whether we’ll like something but not at knowing for how long.” People adapt to a higher living standard but not to social isolation... “People have limited self-control and insufficient energy,

“The Train to Tibet” / Pankaj Mishra
__ They put in a network of pipes to circulate liquid nitrogen and cold air beneath the rails in order to keep them frozen throughout the year.
__ Western modes of mass production seemed to have re-created in China the squalor of ninetheenth-century British coal and mill towns.

Patricia Marx: a working shower made from a Vuitton steamer trunk

"No Obstacles" / Alec Wilkinson
__ While I was writing “Spider-Man” in my notebook, his shadow as he leaped from one roof to another passed over the page.

"The Interpreter" / John Colapinto
__ “Fuck!” Fitch said. “If I’d had a joystick for him to hunt the monkey!”

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"Angry Youth" / Evan Osnos
__ Tang’s birth cost them two hundred kilos of unmilled rice. (“I’m not very expensive,” he says.)
__ The Chinese government, which is wary of fast-spreading new ideas, eventually pulled the book off the shelves, but not before a raft of knockoffs sought to exploit the same mood (“Why China Can Say No,” “China Still Can Say No,” and “China Always Say No”).

"The Eureka Hunt" / Jonah Lehrer
__ If the left hemisphere excelled at denotation - storing the primary meaning of a word- Jung-Beeman suspected that the right hemisphere dealt with connotation, everything that gets left out of a dictionary definition.
__ Concentration, it seems, comes with the hidden cost of diminishing creativity.

David Samuels: Indica is a heavier, numbing drug; sativa is better for doing creative work or listening to music.

("David Belle Fall") , Fustel de Coulanges

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