Reading #poetry stimulates areas of the brain associated with memory http://t.co/2mxVJT0E5Z

— Poetry Foundation (@PoetryFound) October 10, 2013

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Hard to imagine a corporate board of directors not being ousted after treating employees & customers the way Congress is treating theirs.

— TaqueriaPoblanoDRay (@delraytaco) October 9, 2013

And to think I appreciated them only for their tacos up till now.

1/2: "A great nation is not saved by wars. It is saved by acts without external picturesqueness: by speaking, writing, voting reasonably..."

— Amy Cuddy (@amyjccuddy) October 9, 2013

2/2: "by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties." ~William James (who was the friggin' bomb)

— Amy Cuddy (@amyjccuddy) October 9, 2013

Comments in this post via James Fallows are somewhat less philosophical but noteworthy nonetheless.

'Democracy means accepting defeat,' and other principles House GOP is rejecting http://t.co/oLOipzx4v6 by me @TheAtlantic

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) October 9, 2013

Just when you thought your smartphone was pluripotent....now you can control cyborg cockroaches http://t.co/RHiCUp3BaT no thanks!

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 9, 2013

I first heard about stuff like this in August 2012 but I missed this Kickstarter totally.

Manuscript pages of Dickens' "Great Expectations." http://t.co/QlZivN8laG

— Open Culture (@openculture) October 8, 2013