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21 emotions

They include, "Saudade" (Portuguese)
A somewhat melancholic feeling of incompleteness. Longing for something that might never return.Yearning.

Another I learned was the Japanese word "genki", which translates roughly as "well" as in "feeling well" or how some people use the word "wellness". My understanding of the word is that it means "healthy in body and spirit"

There is a subtext here, that English has plenty of words to express anger but not enough to express fear, tenderness, or nostalgia

http://peiyinglin.net/ongoing/unspeakableness/

He explains a concept that has occurred to me before only in a very rough way, that culture is in some part determined by the qualities of the language of that culture. If a language does not include, for example, the subjunctive mood (woulda coulda shoulda) then that culture is unable to express 'what might have been', and thus actually experiences less self-doubt and regret.

I used to fantasize about riding the rails a lot when I was younger.

In this article, a British author recounts his adventures riding the rails with tramps and hoboes.
The piece begins a little too preciously, too "writer-y", but turns into a compelling read.

"The temperature dips with the sun, and I stuff my clothes with newspaper, remembering Doc’s dictum: “Tramps, bums and hobos all use The Wall Street Journal for insulation, but the hobo reads it first.” The night clears and the stars come out like nobody’s watching. I am lulled by the symphonic racket of a thousand train parts in seeming revolt against one another. Peace in pandemonium."

Priggers and Palliards, Autem Morts and Doxies - great names for medieval miscreants

...
10. Fresh-water mariners or whipjacks (beggars pretending shipwreck)
11. Dummerers (sham deaf-mutes)
12. Drunken tinkers (thieves using the trade as a cover)
13. Swadders or peddlers (thieves pretending to be peddlers)
14. Jarkmen (forgers of licenses) or patricoes (hedge priests)
...

http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/02/23-types-of-vagabond.html

Posted: Visualizing US expansion through post offices. from Derek Watkins on Vimeo.

From wikipedia:

In 1948, psychologist Bertram R. Forer gave a personality test to his students. He told his students they were each receiving a unique personality analysis that was based on the test's results and to rate their analysis on a scale of 0 (very poor) to 5 (excellent) on how well it applied to themselves. In reality, each received the same analysis:

"You have a great need for other people to like and admire you. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage. While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them. Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof. You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic. Security is one of your major goals in life."

On average, the rating was 4.26, but only after the ratings were turned in was it revealed that each student had received identical copies assembled by Forer from various horoscopes. These statements later became known as Barnum statements, after P.T. Barnum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect#Forer.27s_demonstration

Credit to:
http://liana.tumblr.com/post/95793665/your-npr-name

referenced on:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2009/04/whats_your_npr_name.html

"You take your middle initial and insert it somewhere into your first name. Then you add on the smallest foreign town you've ever visited."

I don't know the populations of all the little foreign towns I've been in, but let's say my name is Mact Ataria

Some great examples of retro-futurist "envisionings"

The site: http://ru-2061.livejournal.com/ is devoted to a drawing contest where artists imagine a planet Mars colonized by a thriving Soviet space program in the year 2061.

Not all of the work is good, but some is very good. The second round of the contest, "The Stone Belt" seems to have attracted more talent than the first.

The page is in Russian, but Chrome translates it pretty well.

Russian art is always fascinating to me because the default color palette is just a little different from the American one. It's hard to put my finger on it, but if you look at, say images taken by Russian satellites:

the blues are shifted a bit toward green and the reds shifted a bit toward orange, in comparisons to the NASA photos which are usually "color-corrected" so that the blues, reds, and greens are fully saturated.