Evan Braun in Blackface & Drag

Myers-Briggs

SENSING (S) vs. INTUITION (I): How we take in information.

Those who prefer Sensing favor clear, tangible data and information that fits in well with their direct here-and-now experience. In contrast, those who prefer Intuition are drawn to information that is more abstract, conceptual, big-picture, and represents imaginative possibilities for the future.

THINKING (T) vs. FEELING (F): How we make decisions and come to judgements.

Those who prefer Thinking have a natural preference for making decisions in an objective, logical, and analytical manner with an emphasis on tasks and results to be accomplished.

Those whose preference is for Feeling make their decisions in a somewhat global, visceral, harmony and value-oriented way, paying particular attention to the impact of decisions and actions on other people.

EXTRAVERTED (E) vs. INTRAVERTED (I): How we get our energy.

Those who prefer Intraversion draw their primary energy from the inner world of information, thoughts, ideas, and other reflections. When circumstances require an excessive amount of attention spent in the “outside” world, those preferring Introversion find the need to retreat to a more private setting as if to recharge their drained batteries.

Those who prefer Extraversion are drawn to the outside world as their elemental source of energy. Rarely, if ever, do extraverted preference people feel their energy batteries are “drained” by excessive amounts of interaction with the outside world. They must engage the things, people, places and activities going on in the outside world for their life force.

JUDGING (J) vs. PERCEIVING (P): How we relate to the outer or external world.

Those who prefer Judging rely upon either their T or F preference to manage their outer life. This typically leads to a style oriented towards closure, organization, planning, or in some fashion managing the things and or people found in the external environment. The drive is to order the outside world. While some people employ an assertive manner, others “ordering touch” – with respect to people – may be light.

Those who prefer Perceiving rely upon either their S or N preference to run their outer life. This typically results in an open, adaptable, flexible style of relating to the things and people found in the outside world. The drive is to experience the outside world rather than order it; in general lack of closure is easily tolerated.

The 4 Humours

Humour	Season	Element	Organ	Qualities	Ancient name	Modern	MBTI	Ancient characteristics
Blood	spring	air	liver	warm & moist	sanguine	artisan	SP	courageous, hopeful, amorous
Yellow bile	summer	fire	gall bladder	warm & dry	choleric	idealist	NF	easily angered, bad tempered
Black bile	autumn	earth	spleen	cold & dry	melancholic	guardian	SJ	despondent, sleepless, irritable
Phlegm	winter	water	brain/lungs	cold & moist	phlegmatic	rational	NT	calm, unemotional

Where's Gaza?

I wanted to post these stories about the importance of women in warzones
<http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/02/21/why-women-belong-i
n-war-zones> , when something in the first article caught my eye: the
errata.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: February 21, 2011

An earlier version of this article included a photograph with a caption
that misspelled the name of a reporter. She is Lara Logan, not Laura.
Also, an earlier version erroneously referred to Gaza as being "in
Israel."

Nothing about the error takes away from the points, of course:

Several commentators have suggested
<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/02/17/2011-02-17_violated
_then_betrayed_which_is_worse_egyptian_sex_assault_or_us_pundits_saying_
.html> that Ms. Logan was somehow at fault: because she's pretty;
because she decided to go into the crowd; because she's a war junkie.
This wasn't her fault. It was the mob's fault. This attack also had
nothing to do with Islam. Sexual violence has always been a tool of war.
Female reporters sometimes are just convenient.

Women can cover the fighting just as well as men, depending on their
courage.

More important, they also do a pretty good job of covering what it's
like to live in a war, not just die in one. Without female
correspondents in war zones, the experiences of women there may be only
a rumor.

Watch the world get fat

This interactive chart from the Washington Post <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/health/weight-of-the-world-bmi/> shows how the average body mass index has risen in most countries since 1980. The European men getting comparatively heavier than European women (against the general trend of the rest of the world) is interesting

Source <http://kottke.org/11/02/watch-the-world-get-fat> (kottke)

Mub-bye

White House: The president was informed of president Mubarak's decision
to step down during a meeting in the Oval Office. He then watched TV
coverage of the scene in Cairo for several minutes in the outer Oval
(office).

It was only real once seen on the screen, one assumes.

One Man's Dark Meat is Another Man's Poison

Yet more evidence of toxic eating concerns:

Why do we treat dark meat—perfectly edible dark meat, savored abroad—as a waste product?

Tenderness isn't the only reason Americans reach for breasts above all other parts; color also shapes this choice. According to Dr. Marcia Pelchat of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, consumers unconsciously perceive dark meat as dirty when compared to the breast, perhaps because it's situated at the back and bottom of the animal. There's nothing actually harmful about dark meat: The brown hue comes from a compound called myoglobin, which helps transport oxygen to the muscles so that they function efficiently. As chickens spend most of their lives standing, their legs are full of it. Inversely, since chickens don't fly, as ducks or geese do, their breast muscles contain only a negligible reserve of myoglobin resulting in significantly lighter meat in their upper bodies. Of course few people care to study up on chicken biochemistry before dinner—which brings us squarely to another reason why chicken legs rarely make it into our shopping carts: We're squeamish. "When you're faced with a chicken leg, there's no hiding the fact that it's the leg of an animal," says Pelchat. The modern consumer is nearly as averse to seeing a leg on their plate as they are to seeing a fish head. We have grown accustomed to buying boneless, bloodless slabs of meat in cellophane-wrapped trays and don't want to be reminded of the provenance of our meal, that it came from an animal that was once living, breathing, and moving. A nondescript breast fillet appeals since it bears little resemblance to an actual chicken.

Another solution would be for fast-food companies to save the day by carrying a dark meat product, which, despite everything you've just read, might actually happen in the not-too-distant future. But only because science has managed to transform dark meat into white.

Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2282473/