Archive for 2009
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Sleep & migraines
Pressure changes are just one of many things that give me migraines. I went to bed with a migraine at 2pm yesterday and am about to go back to bed now just 30 minutes after waking up since it hasn’t gone away. Here’s what the pressure looks like: Small, slow changes and almost flat in […]
Genius Fail
I really wish there was a way to use pandora with my own music. Today I used itunes’ genius to make a list of songs based on Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt. The third song on the list was Martina McBride’s rendition of Silver Bells.
But that didn’t stop murder in the name of God
From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Despite it’s otherworldliness, religion is highly pragmatic. We shall see that it is far more important for a particular idea of God to work than for it to be logically or scientifically sound. As soon as it ceases to be […]
Pressure
Changes in pressure seem to be my biggest migraine trigger. So changing elevation, flying, and weather changes all make me sick. I want to choose a graduate school where I’ll almost never be sick, so I need to understand more about the types of pressure changes that cause my migraines. What’s the minimum change that […]
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What we killed Thursday – Thanksgiving edition
Just one collection of Flabellidium spinosum was ever made. Theodor Herzog found this moss growing in the Tres Cruces Cordillera almost a century ago. Theodor Herzog was a German bryologist and is famous (What? You haven’t heard of him?) for his work on the biogeography of mosses. The area and others of they type where […]