Parents rated the children with ASD to have more obsessions relating to folk physics (e.g., machines, vehicles, computers) or television/audio and displayed fewer obsessions related to folk psychology (e.g., imagination, gossip, beliefs, relationships).
The Philippines, where 45% of people live on under $2 a day, has imported a few American obsessions: malls and movies.
Somewhere between a few more obsessions (the Spice Girls, Jeff Buckley, Will Young) Adele popped Etta James in to the CD player, and thought: Oh, I can do that.
Hal Varian: In the past few weeks, obsessions with financial markets, huge increase in queries on [financial topics].
It was an obsession that bordered on mental illness, but, as we've learned in the past few decades, the obsessions of the mentally ill are the primary force behind most of our greatest inventions.
Whatever they capture, though, the multitude of images and voices is everywhere in the service of a world view and an exploration of its few causes and obsessions.
The rest of the house was stuffed with birdcages of his own design, brass chandeliers, wooden shutters, old doors, kitchen cabinets, vacuum cleaners, spiral staircases, curious iron grillwork boxes and fire irons, to name a few of his obsessions.
Reading Mr. Marcus at his best — on Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Sly Stone, the Band, Sleater-Kinney, Dock Boggs or Randy Newman, to name just a few of his obsessions over the years — is like watching a surfer glide shakily down the wall of an 80-foot wave, disappear under a curl for a deathly eternity, then soar out the other end.
He has always had many close friends in the city, Chinese and foreign, but few understand his obsession.
Silicon Valley's hardware engineers and software hackers are famed for their quirky obsessions, but few have gone to the lengths of John Wharton.
