VQR loves Cliches like I love peanut butter

From here

"This was supposed to be a blog entry about how authors submit poetry to us covering clichéd topics that there’s just no way we’re going to print. But then I did the math, calculating the percentage of our submissions and published work that contain any of a dozen mainstays of poetic terminology, and found that precisely the opposite is true.

submitted published
water 19.9% 24.8%
death 14.1% 15.2%
blood 11.7% 13.8%
stone 11.1% 16.0%
bone 9.1% 7.8%
poetry 7.6% 10.3%
heart 7.5% 6.7%
fish 7.0% 5.3%
birth 5.5% 7.4%
darkness 3.9% 17.0%
rust 3.3% 2.5%
cat 2.3% 2.8%

As it turns out, our editor is all about those dreaded paeans to cats. The moral of the story is that talent transcends topic, I suppose; in the hands of a skilled poet, even stone/bone can be made a vital couplet again."

girls rule, boys drool

Scientific American reports that girls process words differently than boys, which accounts for our SUPERIOR LANGUAGE SKILLS. Boys use different parts of their brains when processing language, so they need more visual and oral stimulation (this sounds terribly dirty) whereas the little ladies can pick up information either way. Read all about it here in scientific american. Contest the findings if you are a lady and your prefer to learn both ways...