Tuesday 30 April 2013

SITTING DN

//////////////sitting down for more than six hours a day can increase your risk of death by as much as 40%.


////////////Kiki had to get out, get going, or she'd punch a hole in something



//////////////adomania-at 48

n. the sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule 




////////////////////20 yr surviving retrmnt- extremely lucky


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 meta-analysis, a set of tools for weighing and combining evidence."


///////////////////////////Neuroscientists warn us that we may have no freewill, no 'self' at the helm; their work shows that our memories are leaky reconstructions and that even our visual perception of the world is a system of illusions."



////////////////////////Fiction exists for its own purposes, and writers and readers will rightly resist attempts to turn it into "evidence" for or against anything. It's possible that neuroscience is just too new for its ideas to have permeated literary fiction in the way that those other paradigm-changers, Darwinism and psychoanalysis, did." 

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