Posts Tagged ‘women’

Commonplaces

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
—Edgar Allen Poe

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
—John Locke, Of Reading

Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are [...]

Smart, curvey women?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

A certain high school English teacher of my acquaintance (now retired) famously posited a definite inverse correlation between the intelligence of his female students, and the size of their breasts.
Well, science is suggesting that this might have been a false conclusion.
It was already known that men find curvy women more attractive and that they live [...]