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Things that bear repeating

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sexual harassment in Academia is symptomatic of the larger-scale dysfunctionalities between the sexes in our culture, and any address of them must be grounded in the fundamental tenets of women’s liberation

from Hope Jahren

A few good hours

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Lately my migraines are rarely terrible, soul-crushingly painful events. But I am almost never completely pain or symptom free.

Yesterday was the first day in weeks that I had a solid chunk of time with no migraine symptoms. I wrote the introduction to two of my proposal chapters, the methods for one chapter, did some planning for other sections, and came up with a plan B for a potentially problematic part of one of my projects.

I also did yoga, took a long walk, uploaded some photos, made dinner, and talked with a friend.

8 totally migraine free hours and I did more yesterday than I did in the week prior.

Today I had breakfast and laid back down, did my breakfast dishes and laid back down, washed my face and brushed my teeth and laid back down, answered a few emails and laid back down. After this blog post is published, I’m going to lie back down.

I need more days like yesterday.

While you’re waiting for the bus

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The Fallacy of Success That book won’t help you

Listen to a brain seizure turned into music Lovely and intimate view of our brains misbehaving

What’s Ailing Healthcare.gov? Bad software fucking up policy

Finding Out You’re a Sexist, Misogynistic, Homophobic, Classist, Racist Asshole and Hypocrite — about work — Medium

Shutdown coverage fails Americans All my relatives who rely on (non-cable) tv news and local papers think the shutdown is at least equally the Democrats’ fault.

For Better Social Skills, Scientists Recommend a Little Chekhov Read more (good) fiction

Permission To Play Devil’s Advocate Denied When someone says they want to play devil’s advocate, it’s time to find someone else to talk to

from gimmepizzauoldtroll. If you haven’t read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, you should probably go do that now


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Stupid, lazy young folks

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Usually millennials get shit for being lazy and entitled. But now that the numbers show so many of us are working crap jobs, we’re getting called stupid, too. This WSJ article suggests that young people are shooting themselves in the foot by staying in their low wage jobs.

Changing jobs is one of the most important sources of wage growth, particularly for younger workers. With unemployment for those under age 25 still elevated at 15.6%, many of those lucky enough to have jobs are playing it safe by staying put—and as a result may put themselves at a permanent earnings disadvantage.

Those silly young folks. There are so many good jobs to be had if we’d just apply for them!

 

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What inner city kids know about social media Teenagers are better at the internet than you

Most Americans Will Be Able to Spend $0 Per Year in Retirement. Maybe once enough of us are poor, businesses will have no one to sell to and so start advocating for government paychecks for everybody?

How Bad Data Warped Everything We Thought We Knew About the Jobs Recovery.

Why You Don’t Actually ‘F*cking Love Science.’ If you really loved science, I wouldn’t have 10s of thousands of dollars of debt.

For many lower income people, commercial banks are ultimately more expensive. Poor people aren’t being irresponsible by forgoing commercial banks

James Fadiman’s studies of the effects of LSD

Google is becoming the Web’s unofficial policeman

The Meanings of Life“Covering Up The [Gulf] Oil Spill With Corexit Was a Deadly Action … What Happen…