QUESTION FROM SRFMF: Do you think Clarence Thomas' wife's political activities are unsettling?
An unsettling number of everyday activities lie at or above the danger line, including lawn-mowing, motorcycle-riding, rock-concert-going, Shop-Vac-ing, milkshake-making, subway-riding, and power-tool-using.
"And the fact that they were more accurate means, we think, that they're forming new patterns they wouldn't be able to form otherwise". Brain-imaging studies of people evaluating anomalies, or working out unsettling dilemmas, show that activity in an area called the anterior cingulate cortex spikes significantly.
It does feel unsettling to think of pleasurable activities as a derivative of workplace tasks, or even to think of yourself as predictable or defined by your job.
The fall-off in housing activity is especially unsettling because fundamental determinants, from low mortgage rates and lean inventories to an increase in the number of households being formed, have all been pointing to continued gains.The eerie regularity of this "spring swoon" (see chart) has aroused suspicions that something is amiss in the data.
Turkey's shift on Incirlik came as the country is on higher alert following a series of deadly attacks and unsettling signs of increased IS activity in Turkey.
And offline, hacker activities were much more unsettling to the international status quo.
What is unsettling is that the rate of terrorism related activity increases with the increase in our counter-terrorism powers.
Recurring through the film are unsettling images of jolly, overfed American tourists engaged in activities like beer-drinking contests in Jamaica's luxury hotels.
There is something a little unsettling about the suggestion that war is just another routine human activity, like driving or stock trading, that needs to be conducted according to the rules lest someone get hurt.
