“Nous ne désirons pas les choses parce qu’elles sont bonnes, mais nous les déclarons bonnes parce que nous les désirons.”
Spinoza

The new science of decision making. It’s not as rational as you think
By Jerry Adler | Newsweek
July 5 issue - Flat on my back, my eyes shrouded with LED goggles and my ears encased in headphones, I was trundled into the maw of an fMRI machine in a basement lab at the California Institute of [...]

The strange things that happen in a Beijing newsroom | Jul. 30, 2006. 01:00 AM IAIN MARLOW | SPECIAL TO THE TORONTO STAR
Like a dove flying a gauntlet, my article flew out of my hands at 6 p.m. and landed in the next day’s paper a flightless, ugly thing. It sailed the jet streams of copy editors, [...]

Reicher Mann und armer Mann
Standen da und sahn sich an.
Und der Arme sagte bleich:
Wär ich nicht arm, wärst du nicht reich.