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Matchmaking
My grandmother gave my address to a nice young man she met at a funeral this week. He’s also living in Epiphyte City and did you know he wasn’t wearing a wedding band? It’s times like these I wish I could be open about my relationships with more of my relatives.
Businesses are greedy. We shouldn’t take them at their word.
But the main backing for government intervention in STEM education has come from the business lobby. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard a businessman stand up and bemoan the alleged failure of the education system to produce the science and technology ‘skills’ that his company requires, I’d be a very rich […]
While you’re waiting for the bus May 11, 2013
Stuff worth reading Protected bike lanes = good for business There is Only Try Yoda doesn’t know shit. The real meaning of Niall Ferguson’s John Maynard Keynes-was-gay jibe Your insults can reveal a great deal about the intellectual company you keep Cassava was supposed to help us survive climate change, and now it’s dying Eat […]
Highly effective my ass
Triptans are considered highly effective treatment for migraine attacks. But they are really not doing it for me. And now I know why.
Why did you write that paper?
Some choice quotes from Peter Lawrence in PLOS Biology. On productivity [N]o longer are communication and record the primary purposes of publishing; instead, we now use papers as tokens to get jobs and funding. On impact metrics [O]nly false objectivity is offered by evaluating real people using unreal calculations with numbers of papers, citations, and journal […]
While you’re waiting for the bus May 4, 2013
Stuff worth reading Debtors Prisons Are Punishing the Poor Across America Where’s our Dickens? the work of grief The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating a New Society
Making it worse
I think my migraine meds are making me sicker. I started amitriptyline in December and quit it at the end of February when going up to a dose they commonly give children resulted in half my body going numb and feeling like my heart was being squeezed by a very angry giant. I started a […]