(Part 2) Top products from r/RedditDayOf
We found 20 product mentions on r/RedditDayOf. We ranked the 52 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Asheville City USA Flag Lapel Pin Engraved Box
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Flag Lapel Pin BadgeSolid Sterling Silver 925 Quality MarkHand Made 18mm SquareOptional Engraved Gift Box Tick Gift MessageNo message box assumed blank
23. Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
24. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
26. A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
#! NY Times bestsselling Author, Augusten Burroughs, he wrote "Running With Scissors"Father MemoirMemoirDysfunctionalParental relationships
27. Sea of Poppies: A Novel (The Ibis Trilogy (1))
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Picador USA
28. River of Smoke: A Novel (The Ibis Trilogy)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
29. Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog! and Other Palindromes
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
30. Thinking, Fast and Slow
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Thinking Fast and Slow
32. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
33. How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Irish and Civilization..their contribution
34. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
romantic awakening
35. Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (The Standard Edition) (Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
37. Encyclopedia Brown's record book of weird and wonderful facts
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
38. In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Basic Books AZ
I have long found this to be an interesting topic as it relates to how laughter/humor might be a reflection of one's morals. Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious comes to mind.
Here's a pretty comprehensive summary of different philosophies of humor/laughter from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
A good piece from the SEP article:
>Plato, the most influential critic of laughter, treated it as an emotion that overrides rational self-control. In the Republic (388e), he says that the Guardians of the state should avoid laughter, “for ordinarily when one abandons himself to violent laughter, his condition provokes a violent reaction.” Especially disturbing to Plato were the passages in the Iliad and the Odyssey where Mount Olympus was said to ring with the laughter of the gods. He protested that “if anyone represents men of worth as overpowered by laughter we must not accept it, much less if gods.”
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>Another of Plato's objections to laughter is that it is malicious. In Philebus (48–50), he analyzes the enjoyment of comedy as a form of scorn. “Taken generally,” he says, “the ridiculous is a certain kind of evil, specifically a vice.” That vice is self-ignorance: the people we laugh at imagine themselves to be wealthier, better looking, or more virtuous than they really are. In laughing at them, we take delight in something evil—their self-ignorance—and that malice is morally objectionable.
Right after this section the article goes into the Biblical and Christian views of laughter (mostly negative for the first part of Christian history).
If anyone is interested in reading a novel with the Opium Wars as the backdrop I highly suggest checking out the Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh, which starts with [Sea of Poppies] (http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Poppies-Amitav-Ghosh/dp/0312428596/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377016732&sr=8-1&keywords=sea+of+poppies). In fairness the trilogy starts on the eve of the Opium Wars and hence SoP only scratches the surface; [River of Smoke] (http://www.amazon.com/River-Smoke-Novel-Amitav-Ghosh/dp/0374174237/ref=pd_sim_b_3)--part two of the trilogy--does a deeper dive on the political events that lead the Opium Wars but obviously you'll need to read SoP to make sense of what's going on in RoS.
(As an aside--I found SoP to be an excellent book with engaging characters, great prose and incredibly well written and plotted while RoS was merely ok for me. RoS could have used better editing and seemed almost unfocused at times. That said, the writing is still pretty strong and perhaps it seems unfocused because it is setting up the final, and as yet unreleased installment of the trilogy.)
Though the day is over, here's some of the folklore in the film. (source: TV Tropes)
Hey, cool, this is what I study (shoutout to the social and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon). Kahneman and Tversky were insanely prolific researchers (and Kahneman still is to an extent) and their findings practically invented the fields of behavioral economics and decision science. Crazy cool people.
For a good read and an "outsider's" introduction, I'd recommend Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman. If you're more comfortable reading academic texts, their papers are pretty widely available too.
Sorry, I did not see that, it was in collected by his family trust, many of his letters and personal notes have trickled out in the past decade by the trust and family. I teach high school and first saw this in a collection of works from Random House's collection Vonnegut Letters
If you want to do the assignment that goes along with it here
cc u/oneawesomeguy
P.S. it is an awesome collection.
I loved that book. Somehow we have 2 copies, which works out since now the kids love it so much too. The author, Jon Agee, has a bunch of other fun wordplay books too. We especially love Mr. Putney’s Quacking Dog
Looks like you can’t get it new anymore, but Amazon’s got used copies: Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog! and Other Palindromes https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374334730
Just kidding about Ada, of course.
For anyone interested, this bio is a very good read, with enough of the technical details required for someone who programs to see how much she was involved in. The author doesn't put her on a pedestal, either, which is nice.
I grew up on Encyclopedia Brown. Some of his mysteries became a bit dated over time, but still sound.
My biggest issue - and it actually isn't with the Encyclopedia Brown character himself - was the lending of his name to:
Encyclopedia Brown's Record Book of Weird and Wonderful Facts
This was one of those "Weird Fact" books that all nerds loved back in the day. Filled with trivia and mundane "facts" about all sorts of things.
And so many of them were utter poppycock.
I cringe to think of how many of these "factoids" I regurgitated. How much erroneous information did I squirrel away in my brain that was wrong. Must I second guess everything I ever knew?
Donald Sobol wasn't the only perpetrator of mis-information. But I trusted Encyclopedia Brown and by extension, I trusted Mr. Sobol. And it is this book that burns in my memory as a pillar of fabrication and fancy.
Edit - I went ahead and bought a copy for the singular purpose of determining how much of it is crap.
A informal biography of Randolph
The book itself.
It's a fun one. The hand-mimeographed original circulated in the academic folklore world for a long time before the commercial book came out. Randolph published a lot of good important stuff, but this is what he's remembered for.
The title tale was chosen because it was one of the most common jokes found across the Appalachians/Ozarks by not just Vance, but many of his colleagues.
It makes you wonder how many other seminal collectors had private folders of "unprintable" stuff...
His original paper can be found here. If you find it a bit dense then you may be interested in reading an annotated version of his work found from this wonderful book.
It's actually not that ironic; the Stoics were all about joy. It was negative emotions they wanted to cast off, not all emotions.
See: http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic/dp/0195374614
Amazon link
Link to actual book
So the actual Asheville flag does not look like this in person. It looks like this—basically normal.
This flag image was created by Subman758 for Wikipedia:
> The is the city of Asheville, North Carolina's Flag. The Crew of USS Asheville use this as their Battle Flag. I created this image using Microsoft Paint. I was unable to find this image anywhere on the internet.
Since for a while this was the only image of the flag on the Internet, it kind of took on a life as "the official flag of Asheville, made in MS Paint". In fact, most Asheville merchandise bearing the flag merchandise uses this image.
x-post from /r/knitting where someone told me about you folks.
My niece is a big time math/physics nerd so for Christmas last year I made her a scarf based on the book "17 Equations that Changed the World."
I gave up on trying to find the photo of the finished product. I took this and joined it into a möbius that she would wear as a double-twisted cowl.
The scarf was accompanied by this book as a Christmas present: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465085989/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s02?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Unfortunately I don't since I read that in a book more than ten years ago. Hah. So I guess I can say I'm pretty sure those are the facts (at least according to that one book). I believe this is the book. I remember it being good but I don't think my knowledge of true crime books was very well developed then so it could be total crap!
I don't think they'd seen flying foxes before. Fact source was this book which is horribly outdated in the biology section.
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