NP just leftovers

[Mark Kohut]

>From an article on Firedog Lake crticizing a recent article on 'Gropegate"....
"Or live in San Diego or work for dentists, which is apparently suspect in 
itself."

Martin_Eve
Doing myself a brief history of Franco-Jesuit connections for work on Pynchon's 
Mason & Dixon.

The North, as a negative association in Pynchon,--bringing cold-- goes way back 
with lots of
associations:   Aesop "the North Wind and the Sun" (see wiki if 
interested).....it is in Othello.............
R. Graves (of White Goddess fame) wrote a fantasy novel "Watch the North WInd 
Rise" and a 
Geo MacDonald wrote "At the Back of the North Wind" in the 19th Century (it is 
online)

North = human coldness...............South = human warmth


From a piece called The Cognitive Cost of Expertise....wee Daily Dish if 
interested.....
One of my favorite examples of such tradeoffs comes from the work of 
neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, who has helped illuminate the anatomy of 
reading in the brain. Not surprisingly, the ability to make sense of words takes 
up a significant chunk of the visual cortex, as brain cells previously devoted 
to object recognition get usurped by the alphabet. (Dehaene refers to this 
process as “neuronal recycling.”) Deheane also speculates that, while “learning 
to read induces massive cognitive gains,” it also comes with a hidden mental 
cost: because so much of our visual cortex is now devoted to literacy, we’re 
less able to “read” the details of the natural world.