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July 29, 2009
So of all the crazy coverage and ruminations about the Cambridge Police/Prof. Gates situation, I truly do love the Daily Show’s commentary on what we can learn about all this:
“Don’t forget your #@$*&$ keys.”
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December 17, 2008
So aside from Skunk’s sculptures and a bunch of other fun art on the walls in my house, we also have a bunch of toys sitting around. Last night, after watching Mean Girls, and then a whole slew of web videos Nosepicker got around to playing with our friendly dining room ATAT, and once it […]
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October 1, 2008
So I like to indulge in listening to mashups… for the most part it takes something i feel nostalgic about and… if done well… makes it infinitely more danceable.
There are lots of mashups i don’t like, but the ones that make me happy make me extremely so.
I stumbled across am.fm.pm and while the Janey’s Got […]
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October 1, 2008
While listening to On The Media this week, I found myself amused and disheartened by the current economic crisis as well as the presidential race. Sometimes it seems like we too easily get away from the things that are important in terms of values, in terms of issues to support, and it seems most people […]
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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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