Links

Do the languages we speak shape the way we think?
(Wall Street Journal): New cognitive research into a time-worn and controversial question

No cure for creative block
(BBC): A London professor writes a fairly insipid article about the ubiquity of depression, drug-use and alcoholism among creative types

Gay families on television
(New York Times): They've been around for years, and they've helped broaden acceptance for the new nuclear

Today's quote:

"The arts are affordable and profitable, costing as little to fund as half a pint of milk a week per person. The government would be idiotic to cut them."

~ Daniel Bye, "Arts funding cuts reveal the government's poor business sense" (Guardian theatre blog)