"for it's birling down and down the white water / the log-driver's waltz pleases girls completely"

[larryhammer]

Poking with hard data at ways in which much of what modern psychology thinks it knows about human behavior is culturally dependent. Including not just at the fundamental assumptions of economics but the effectiveness of optical illusions. In many studies, American behaviors are specifically outliers on the bell curve, even compared to western Europeans. (via)

BTW, I don't think I've linked before to Project Gutenberg's random book function. (Also available in the ManyBooks.net version, of course.)

Remember the versions of Ronsard? Compare also this sonnet by Samuel Daniel, a slightly younger contemporary. Hardly a single phrase from it, and yet ... (For another, more lapidary version of the same trope, there's also this take.)

But if you only click through one link, make it the first.

---L.