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April 10, 2008
you may remember i wrote about why Happy Feet makes me sad, how i get frustrated by the movie because it implies that all we need to do to save the world is make people see what’s wrong. I don’t believe that, because people look at what’s wrong right in the face and don’t […]
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April 9, 2008
Ever listen to This American Life? I highly recommend it, or at least pick through for show themes that pique your interest. Today I feel somewhat assuaged over any kind of occupational frustrations I might have. Why? Because I’m not an astronaut. Episode #329 “Nice Work if You Can Get It” opens with a conversation […]
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March 25, 2008
i finished reading a book last night, the first novel i’ve read in a very long time, and definitely the first something “for fun” that i’ve read in years that wasn’t a comic book and didn’t somehow relate to my field of study.
Boy Toy is a story about high school experiences, surviving abuse, and growing […]
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February 7, 2008
Happy New Year, and welcome to the year of the rat. Today is Spring Festival, or the lunar new year… and as it’s the rat, it’s the first year of a new 12 year cycle. Things that happen this year are supposed to set the pace for the whole cycle, which is pretty […]
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January 31, 2008
This is a summary and response to Yang, G. (2005). “Environmental NGOs and institutional dynamics in China,” The China Quarterly, 181, 46-66.
This article was a great update on the sort of information I was collecting in 1999. The basic scene is this: China is a fairly repressive non-democratic society where protest and political organization […]
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January 17, 2008
There’s been some psychological studies on men and women looking at estimated as opposed to measured intelligence. While there was a really controversial study out of Canada last year saying men had higher average intelligence, more far-reaching studies actually estimate that on the average men and women are equal over the population as a whole, […]
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January 14, 2008
So I’m back at work after having trudged in through the snow. I’ll give you a little update. I didn’t post at all last week. I was busy finishing up my coursework for the fall semester. It’s all done now, which is a big sigh of relief, and I even got feedback and a grade […]
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December 13, 2007
Perfection has both the conventional idea of trying to be the best, and under healthy conditions adjusting those scales when necessary. In the more neurotic sense the definition changes:
Neurotic perfectionists - never feel that they have done their job well enough. They are very intolerant of mistakes and extremely self-critical” (BBC Science & Nature)
I would […]
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December 4, 2007
I find politics frustrating at best, but I do not understand why so much of this positioning matters enough to people to become news. It has come to my attention that the Hillary Clinton camp has a new famous supporter: Fabio. Now, given that I’m an educated person with opinions on many national and global […]
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November 29, 2007
Thoughts from listening to defending jezebel (on point 6 Nov)…
The book is Lesley Hazelton’s Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible’s Harlot Queen.
Jezebel was “framed” according to Hazelton, and she spends a lot of time setting up this concept. Infidelity here is actually religious infidelity rather than sexual infidelity. The story is told as the […]
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