2. The more you remember a memory the less true (authentic?) it is. Radiolab on memory

3. When I went in for my LASIK consultation the doctor explained that since my eyesight is so bad, were they to correct it there I would possibly lose the ability to distinguish shades of grey.

4. “astronomers are finding emigrant planets, lonely orbs that wander the universe with no star, just drifting” — Our Very Normal Solar System Isn’t Normal Anymore

Examples
There are some red marbles in the jar.
Implication: Not all of the marbles in the jar are red.

Q: Is John done with the test yet?
A: He has finished part one.
Implication: He is not done with the test.

Why is the conclusion implied but not stated? How obvious is the implication? If obvious, when is it still considered “implied”? Can “all” ever be “some”?

But wait, there’s more implicatures!

Ta Prohm, Cambodia

(thank you, wikipedia)

Cain and Abel
Ishmael and Isaac
Esau and Jacob
Benjamin/Joseph
Manasseh and Ephraim
Solomon

synonyms (according to wiktionary):
1. (do something futile): “get blood from a stone” “piss up a rope”
2. (go away): “get lost” “go fly a kite” “take a hike”

Per the internet, wonderful labyrinth that it is, there are many origins of this phrase, none of which I can veritably verify via the internet. But the meaning is clear: You can’t get blood from a stone, so you might as well take a hike.

Apparently pounding salt is another more tasteful option.

“The word ‘comfortable’ did not originally refer to enjoyment or contentment. Its Latin root was confortare–to stregnthen or console–and this remained its meaning for centuries. We use it this way when we say ‘He was a comfort to his mother in her old age.’ It was in this sense that it was used in theology: the “Comfoter” was the Holy Sprit. Along the way, “comfort” also acquired a legal meaning: in the sixteenth century a “comforter” was someone who aided or abetted a crime. This idea of support was eventually broadened to include people and things that afforded a measure of satisfaction, and “comfortable” came to mean tolerable or sufficient–one spoke of a bed of comfortable width, although not yet of a comfortable bed. This continues to be the meaning of the expressoin “a comfortable income”–ample but not luxurious. Succeeding generations expanded this idea of convenience, and eventually ‘comfortable’ acquired its sense of physical well-being and enjoyment, but not until the eighteenth century…” pg 20 Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski

“Our grandpartent inserted paper rolls into their player pianos. As far as they were concrend, the piano and the piano roll formed part of the same machine. We, on the other hand, draw a distinction between the machine and the instructions that we give it. We call the machine hardware and to describe the instructions we have invented a new word, ‘software.’ This is more than jargon; the words represents a different way of thinking about technology. Its addition to the language marks an important moment.” pg 21

Radiolab “Colors” — Jules Davidoff, professor of neuropsychology at the University of London and producer Tim Howard
Jules: “When we decide to put colors together in a group”
Tim: “and then give those colors a word, like ‘blue’”
Jules: “something happens.”
Tim: “He says what happens is that now that there’s a category for that thing, thet thing in the category jumps out. It gets louder and louder to your eyes. The category actually feeds back on your perception, so you notice it more.”

“The word ‘comfortable’ did not originally refer to enjoyment or contentment. Its Latin root was confortare–to strengthen or console–and this remained its meaning for centuries. We use it this way when we say ‘He was a comfort to his mother in her old age.’…Along the way comfort also acquires a legal meaning: in the sixteenth century a ‘comforter’ was someone who aided or abetted a crime. This idea of support was eventually broadened to include people and things that afforded a measure of satisfaction, and ‘comfortable’ came to mean tolerable or sufficient–one spoke of a bed of comfortable width, although not yet of a comfortable bed. This continues to be the meaning of the expression ‘a comfortable income’–ample but not luxurious. Succeeding generations expanded this idea of convenience, and eventually ‘comfortable’ acquired its sense of physical well-being and enjoyment, but not until th eighteenth century.” p 20 Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynki

“Our grandparents inserted paper rolls into their player pianos. As far as they were concerned, the piano and the piano roll formed part of the same machine. We, on the other hand, draw a dinstinction between the machine and the instructions that we give it. We call the machine hardware and to describe the instructions we have invented a new word, ‘software.’ This is more than jargon; the word represents a different way of thinking about technology. It’s addition to the language marks an important moment.” p 21

Radiolab Colors–Jules Davidoff, professor or neuropsychology at the University of London and producer Tim Howard

JD: “When we decide to put colors together in a group”
TH: “and then give those colors a word, like ‘blue’”
JD: “something happens.”
TH: “He says what happens is that now that there’s a category for that thing, the thing in the category jumps out. It gets louder and louder to your eyes. The category actually feeds back on your perception so you notice it more.”

“People often write in about the conventional terms for groups of animals and people, especially birds, such as parliament of rooks or murder of crows. Many of these, including tiding of magpies, murmuration of starlings, unkindness of ravens, and exaltation of larks, are poetic inventions that one can trace back to the fifteenth century.”