- watching tv - intellectually engaging vs. passive
- Pratt, imagined communities, and Heroes Season 4 - Samuel's carnival
- why in-class/timed essays aren't an adequate measure of writing ability
- musical taste
- why I might like a song after listening to it enough times
- how certain situations/events are associated with songs and influence opinion of song
- smells and memories
- time
- time travel
- Doctor Who
- Harry Potter time turner
- passage of time
- nostalgia
- memories and connotation vs. denotation - associations and links we make between (unrelated?) events in our mind
- Harry Potter phenomenon
- work in US vs. other countries (see p.278 of Public and Private Families textbook)
- blushing
- in literature
- In Titus Andronicus, Aaron, Chiron and Demetrius discuss blushing (around p. 137-139)
- Peter Pan
- linguistics
- how nautical terms have influenced/infiltrated into current speech/slang - e.g. "by and large" (www.georgianindex.net/nautical/terms.html)
- body image
- Misfits super powers + identity, persistence, and time travel
- Native American language
mar 15 2012 ∞
aug 20 2012 +