• 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 +