rofl.
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Hachiko, a dog who waited at the train station for his owner to return from work everyday. One day, his owner suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at work and never came home. Hachi continued to wait for his return - appearing exactly when the train was due at the station - for the next nine years.
forever reblog
Cried like a baby when I watched this :(
Best movie ever. Akitas are the most incredible dogs ever. I’m just saying.
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Occupy Wall Street is coming back, plans on shutting down NYC tomorrow
After a bit of a winter hibernation, Occupy Wall Street is coming back, and if their plan goes according to plan, they’ll be coming back in a big way. The idea is that the OWS protests will return tomorrow, May 1st, with enough manpower and “99% strikes” to completely shut down the heart of New York City.
I have a final tomorrow, so don’t fuck with my commute.
my sentiments exactly. Please do not screw with my plans Occupy.
"Would you make the same decisions in a foreign language as you would in your native tongue? It may be intuitive that people would make the same choices regardless of the language they are using, or that the difficulty of using a foreign language would make decisions less systematic. We discovered, however, that the opposite is true: Using a foreign language reduces decision-making biases."
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The Foreign-Language Effect (via @vaughanbell)
The foreign-language effect on decision making is most likely determined by multiple factors that increase psychological distance and promote deliberation. Perhaps the most impor- tant mechanism for our effect is the reduction in emotional resonance that is associated with using a foreign language. Emotions and affect play an important role in decision making and in considerations of risk […]. An emotional reaction sometimes induces a less systematic decision. Making a decision in a foreign language could reduce the emotional reaction, thereby reducing bias. […]
So I guess it’s a good thing that recently I found myself thinking in English more and more often.
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Actually great.
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I remember now why I stopped using Tumblr…
