1. Movement is also thinking, even Robin van Persie's. 

"The idea of 'muscle memory' encourages this – allowing us to cordon off feats of motor skill as a special kind of psychological phenomenon, something stored, like magic potion, in our muscles. But the truth, of course, is that so called muscle memories are stored in our brains, just like every other kind of memory. What is more, these examples of great skill are not so different from ordinary thought."

2. On the "coder's high."

"These days I write more than I code, but one of the things I miss about programming is the coder’s high: those times when, for hours on end, I would lock my vision straight at the computer screen, trance out, and become a human-machine hybrid zipping through the virtual architecture that my co-workers and I were building. Hunger, thirst, sleepiness, and even pain all faded away while I was staring at the screen, thinking and typing, until I’d reach the point of exhaustion and it would come crashing down on me."

3. The California Academy of Sciences is digitizing episodes of the 1950s pop science show, Science in Action. And they really are something. 

"Episode 117: 'Rare and exotic Fishes' first aired on June 2, 1953. In this half of the episode, Dr. Earl S. Herald presents a variety of warm water fish from the world over. Don't miss the animal of the week, the Bactrian Camel."

4. My son learned to clap between the time I started cooking dinner and when we sat down to eat.

"Nearly 20 years ago Fay recorded the first observations of hand-clapping in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the Central African Republic. Here we present observations of Likouala swamp gorillas using hand-clapping as a form of gestural communication in previously undocumented contexts in the wild. We observed hand-clapping on four different occasions in four different groups. The hand-clap was always exhibited by an adult female and always consisted of two consecutive claps conducted in front of the body. We suggest the functional significance of the behaviour was to maintain and enforce group cohesiveness during instances of alarm. These observations suggest western lowland gorillas have a means of communicating that is thus far absent in their eastern counterparts (Gorilla beringei ssp.). This could be a gestural culture found only in western lowland gorillas which should be investigated further to shed light on the evolution of communication among hominoids."

5. Meet Taco Bell's "Resident Disruptor."

"Yeah, so here at Taco Bell, one of the great things about our company is that they are very understanding that the world is changing and the world is changing very quickly. Whether it's companies like Uber disrupting the taxi cab industry or Airbnb disrupting the hotel industry, disruption is happening everywhere and Taco Bell recognizes that. And the great thing about it was they sort of really embraced disruption and how do we do things differently, how do we reinvent what we do. And so my job here at Taco Bell is to really think about that."

Today's 1957 American English Usage Tip

burglary. Originally (Law) breaking into and entering the dwelling of another, in the nighttime, with the intent to commit felony. Burgle (chiefly Brit.), burglarize (chiefly US), are labeled 'humorous' or 'colloq.' in most dictionaries. A verb being undoubtedly wanted, & words on the pattern burglarize being acceptable only when there is no other possibility, it is to be hoped that burgle may outgrow its present facetiousness & become generally current. 

Burgle. Buuurgle. Burgle. LOL.

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