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When can I say I did it?
I finally finished my research proposal the other day. I should be celebrating, but I don’t feel a sense of accomplishment or even relief. Perhaps that’s because it’s not really done. I’ll get comments back from my supervisor, then do some edits, then get her approval to send it on to my committee, then get […]
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Stuff worth reading Thomas Piketty Is Right People who obsessively exercise are boring This week I did the first 3 steps of a couch-to-5K program and I don’t have a migraine and I’m not impossibly tired and I’m really proud. I’ve been sick for a long time and it took a long time to get […]
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Stuff worth reading Private Disability Insurance: Tactics so Despicable I Can’t Believe They’re Legal Just because you’re too sick to work doesn’t mean you’re sick enough for disability payments. The thorium solution to climate change. Leading Russian historian sacked for comparing Ukraine invasion to Sudetenland Scientists Condemn New FDA Study Saying BPA Is Safe: “It […]
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Stuff worth reading Elizabeth Warren Pens a Book, Is Still Totally Not Running for President Elegy for a Country’s Seasons by Zadie Smith. rhamphotheca: Because if this doesn’t make your day better nothing can Spain, a developed market democracy, gets 10 to 20 times as much infrastructure … We could build it better Peter Van […]
Weekend at the gallery: Harris, Burtynsky, Carr
This weekend it was rainy, as it often is this time of year here, but I was feeling good and wanted to do something. So I went to the art gallery. I saw five exhibitions, which required a break for lunch and a nap afterwards and was a fantastic way to spend the day. Two […]
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Stuff worth reading “New” Migraine Drugs Migraine drug research is all about teaching old dogs new tricks. The Birth of the Male Biological Clock Maybe we should support people instead of treating them like “resources” so they aren’t left in this horrible trap The Scary New Evidence on BPA-Free Plastics Science by jury is literally […]
Politics is more than personal
Mimi Thi Nguyen investigated the pitfalls of the intimacy that shaped the [riot grrrl] movement, pointing out that situating one’s politics within the story of self-transformation leads to neglect of structural critiques of inequality and oppression. “Working on” one’s own racism and privilege via written confessionals became a primary mode of antiracist activism for many […]