Apr 30 2008
But we should go hiking some weekend!
Apr 30 2008
I don’t really claim to take amazing pictures, but I do like having a record of my life. So this project where you take at least 1 picture every day for a year definitely appeals to me.
Day 1: My desk reading week. Messy, but not a textbook in sight.
Apr 28 2008
Apr 27 2008
I’ve written about the first two days of my spring break already, but now there are many more pictures from day one and two!
From our stop in the Mohave Desert:
And night botanizing on the coast:
Apr 27 2008
E.O. Wilson in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Theoretical physics and molecular biology are acquired tastes. The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding: Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.
Apr 26 2008
Now on Saturdays instead of Wednesdays.
Rasputina - Oh Perilous World
Nat King Cole - The World of Nat King Cole
Beth Orton - Central Reservation
Peaches - The Teaches of Peaches
Apr 22 2008
Sara Robinson writes about John McCain’s betrayal of the troops and how he’s paving the way for an army no one wants to see at Campaign for America’s Future.
Drive by botany in New South Wales at The Reluctant Botanist.
A short report on breast ironing in Cameroon at current tv.
How drunk do you have to be to fall asleep with a knife in your back?
At home, Mr Lyalin had some sausage from the fridge and lay down to sleep, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper says.
After a couple of hours, his wife noticed the handle sticking out of his back and called an ambulance.
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Mr Lyalin apparently feels fine and bears no ill-will.
“We were drinking and what doesn’t happen when you’re drunk?” he was quoted by Komsomolskaya Pravda as saying.
IPCC estimates of sea level rise are way too conservative.
Turning food into gas for your car makes people starve.
The very best explanation of the infuriating, demoralizing subtleties of sexism I’ve ever read.
Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they’re talking about. Some men.
Every woman knows what I’m talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.
Best science class ever.
Apr 21 2008
I brush my teeth twice a day. I floss every day. I use mouthwash. I go to the dentist and get a cleaning and fluoride treatment every 6 months.
But at that cleaning, my dentist always regrets to inform me that I have more cavities. By mid-May, I will have spent almost $900 getting my teeth fixed since January. On the upside, the dentist is fixing them before they get bad and I’m rich enough now that I can have all of this paid off by June AND make rent. The downsides are 1) I have no savings and cannot buy pretty shoes/dresses/books and 2) MY TEETH ARE ROTTING OUT OF MY HEAD.
Apr 20 2008
My students in China got to choose their own names. For the youngest students who didn’t know any English, I gave them a few options and they would choose the one that sounded nicest. At some point though, they would get tired of that name and change it. I started teaching “Brett” in his first English class about 3 years ago. He recently emailed me to let me know his name is now Danny Black. He thinks it’s way cooler. But not as cool as the student who named himself Superman Spiderman BLOOD.
Apr 16 2008
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Vanessa Mae - The Violin Player
Pink Martini - Sympathique
Prefuse 73 - 92 Vs. 02 Collection
Robyn Dell’Unto - Bell Sessions
