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Its face says it all.

SPOILER ALERT: However, you should go to the original thread and read this comment. It helped explain Inception for me.

“Even worse, however, is the conveyor belt effect. Precisely because, in the unquestioned name of meritocracy, a certain type is rewarded in our society, there is immense pressure to churn out more of the same. Parents shape their children with these goals and young adults remake themselves to fit into the straitjacket. Alternative types and outliers are left to wither, sometimes actively pruned away.”

Will this ever catch on in Singapore, given our penchant for ‘chope’-ing seats?

“Over the last 20 years, our societies have become much more attached to the idea of majority rule. The internet has contributed to this sense of empowerment… . However, we have not advanced as much in our respect for the rights of others to think and act differently from us. The internet is exposing us to difference without necessarily increasing our appreciation for difference.”

The title says it all. This is parody, BTW, in case you didn’t get it the first time round.

Which direction do you and your partner kiss in?

“Pigs feel optimistic or pessimistic about life depending on how pleasant their environment is, researchers at Newcastle University have found.”

– So do humans.

“A video outlining a broadly similar example predicament, as described in song by an ex-teacher, Mr. Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, Hon DMus, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, (a.k.a. ‘Sting’).”

“Why would a healthy normal man want to slice off his testicles?”

“Before The Fence, before the 14th Amendment, before Arizona, there were the First Illegal Immigrants…”

Finally! A meatless alternative to the Turducken.

You’ll like this if you watched Inception and liked Inception like how you like this.

“Managers looking to strengthen their authority are wise not to hire overqualified workers … An overqualified person may be difficult to maintain authority over. They can have a bad attitude that’s infectious.”

I never knew they cared so much.

“I think that the manicured walks mirror our schooling system. We have a centrally planned curriculum that … relies largely on the model of decontextualized delivery. It is efficient and predictable. But it is so embedded in our culture that most teachers, parents and students know no other way.”

The dangers of posting TMI on the Web.

Now if only Malaysia could loan us Johor for a bit…

I feel very strongly about this issue because I am someone who has been excluded from the public housing market because of the astronomical prices.

To hell with Inception… This is THE must-watch movie of the year!

A paper which suggests that it’s good for universities to hire PhD graduates who have not been trained by the same university so as to encourage diversity in thought, cross-fertilisation of ideas, etc.

Am posting this up because I remember having this conversation with someone back in NUS about this policy – NUS seldom (or never) hires faculty who have NUS graduate degrees.

How is this distorted or misleading?

BYU produces a stunningly good parody of the recent Old Spice ad.

Why the future won’t the same – or as scary – with the advent of technology.

A Subnormality Comic.

The 48-year-old volunteer, who claimed to have caught 1,200 couples on the beaches since signing up as a volunteer in 2004, said he had had enough.

“I cannot take it any longer and am thinking of giving up this work. I have decided that enough is enough after six years as a volunteer,” he said.

“[Collective intelligence] holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead—because ideas are having sex with each other as never before”.

– LOL. (via)

What Bastian Schweinsteiger’s surname actually means!

Win.

Oh, God – Yes!