little tads that i can't find a list for at the moment

• Myth #1: Most People Use Only 10% of Their Brain
  • Question #1: List and explain four reasons brain researchers give to bust the "10% Myth".
  • Answer:
    • Brain tissue is shaped by natural selection. Unlikely "expensive" brain tissue would be shaped to do nothing - especially since any additional flexibility given by using more brain tissue would confer a survival and reproductive advantage.
    • Damage to even relatively small percentages of brain tissue causes catastrophic consequences.
    • No "quiet" areas of the brain (that have no function) have been found, despite comprehensive exploration with electrical stimulation and multiple brain imaging techniques.
    • Unused brain tissue either degenerates or is taken over by nearby areas for their function.
• Holden Caulfield: + male protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
  • "One of Holden's most striking and quintessential qualities is his powerful revulsion for "phony" qualities, a catch all term for all the hypocrisy that infuriates Holden. It is this cynicism that consequently causes him to distance himself from other people. Interestingly, despite Holden's strong disdain for phony qualities, he exhibits some of the qualities that he abhors, thereby making him a somewhat tragic character. Holden is very much a character of contradiction; At six feet, two-and-a-half inches, he is tall for his age and already has some gray hair, though he himself admits that he acts more like a 13-year-old than an adult. He continually fails classes and calls himself "dumb", yet he shows intelligence through his reasonably articulate narration."
  • "The boy himself is too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it." — Original jacket copy (J.D. Salinger?)
• "The problem is that our modern culture says, "go in earlier, stay later, be more efficient, live with the sacrifice for now"-but the truth is that balance and peace of mind are not produced by these; they follow the person who develops a clear sense of his or her highest priorities and who lives with focus and integrity toward them." (Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, p. 9)