theists vs. atheists

[Via Cectic]

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Well that’s one way to handle it.

Japan’s government has created laws governing the waistline size of it’s citizens in an effort to reduce health care costs.
Those exceeding government limits — 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women, which are identical to thresholds established in 2005 for Japan by the International Diabetes Federation as an easy guideline for identifying health [...]

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i’m baaaack

As you can clearly see from the sudden upsurge in blog posts, I have returned from being completely snowed under.  I am coming up for air this week, licking my wounds, sorting through many unanswered emails and tasks that had to wait until after today.  Hello!  What happened while I was gone?

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the sky is falling!

Shakha* said that the day students are allowed to bring guns is the day he quits. Mmmhmmm! I agree (not that I have anything to quit yet, but you get the idea). To reprint part of my comment to Shakha’s initial post:
I really don’t want students to be the one to make [...]

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the aggregate of our joy and suffering on a pale, blue dot

a repost from orbital teapot, because i agree: not enough views on youtube for this one:

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the audacity of… audacity

So Obama has captured the hearts and minds of so many over the last year, and now Jeremiah Wright is, for reasons that are totally unclear to me, attempting to undo all that. Obama tried to be gracious when this first came up, and in doing so he produced a truly wonderful speech. [...]

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More Reasons I’m In Grad School

From the “my research is dangerously close to web surfing” department, I bring you another titillating video that summarizes why I want to study the internet even better than the first (sorry, can’t seem to embed)! This one is Clay Shirky talking about his book Here Comes Everybody, which (if his talk is any [...]

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time

My darling husband spent valuable time working on the following after being annoyed by someone repeatedly this semester. Apparently, this is how he vents. Note: he is actually a completely non-violent human being. If you know him personally you will undoubtedly nod your head sagely and say “Yep, that’s Michael alright. [...]

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why do you suppose

i get so bent out of shape when people pronounce it so-she-all-oh-gee instead of so-see-all-oh-gee? it seems like a silly preoccupation on my part, and i’m not even sure which is “right” (if there is such a thing).
in other news, i was motivated to give a kind, gentle version of this message to a [...]

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talk about nerdcore!

i give you: Baby Got Stats

[via WickedAnomie]

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