Word: eventing
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...finally “scratch the shiny surface [of suburbia].” This topic may seem trite at worst and overworked at best, but Boice determinedly takes a stab at originality in examining the suicide of a seemingly-normal 17-year-old boy, and the context around that event, in excruciating detail.Within the first five pages, Boice has already delivered something more gruesome than banal. Grayson Donald has hanged himself from a basketball hoop: “His lunch has already made its way through the intestine and colon and now takes the form of hot brown shit cooling...
...performing a number of shows this summer at London’s O2 Arena. Already, the number of shows has been bumped from 10 to 50—all for a guy who hides from the public with masks and veils.As part of the shameless promotion of the event, Jackson was recently brought before a ton of psychotic, screaming fans to give a press conference. With his face looking slightly more human than usual, he waved, did a number of poses, and repeatedly said, “I love you, I really...
...team of Harvard researchers, led by Professor of Psychology Daniel T. Gilbert, conducted two experiments in which Harvard undergraduates were asked to predict their reaction to events given either information about the event itself or surrogate information about the experience of another undergraduate who had experienced the event...
Gilbert said that the study revealed the surprising finding that an individual’s forecasting ability is improved when they are deprived of the information they really want—details of the event itself...
...It’s natural to want information about the event, but it’s not the best way to be accurate,” Gilbert said. “Our imagination is a very poor guide to how we’ll feel in the future...