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The brain is cool
In neuroscience last week we learned about sex, sleep, and the beginning of drugs. It was a good class. :) You know you've finally found your passion when every class and every topic in your field is facinating enough to you that you can't wait to go home and pull up scientific articles on it. I think some of the other students might be frustrated ( Read more... ) -
Random conversation
Scene: Ice bear has come upstairs to wake up the sleeping fate, who is on the bed cudding with her dog, Gabe. After some persuasion and promises of yummy breakfast, fate is vertical and looking for a shirt. Ice bear looks over to her side of the bed and sees some clothes that did not make it to the laundry basket ( Read more... ) -
More info on the flotilla
I think I'm going to use this whole thing in my required global studies class.
Turns out the Mavi Marmara was carrying night vision goggles and bullet proof vests in addition to the gas masks that have been reported. I'm sure those starving in Gaza are oh so glad that space went to war items and not, ya know, food and medicine like advertised.
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Another news article on the Gaza Flotilla thing and stolen from another board I lurk at:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0610/glick060110.php3
This is interesting because it very clearly states that the main weapon in the war muslim extremists are waging is PR. This is the exact same thing they are doing to us in Iraq and Afganhistan. It's worth ( Read more... ) -
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Analysis: High-seas raid deepens Israeli isolation - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100531/ap_on_an/ml_israel_fallout_analysis
Israel's bloody, bungled takeover of a Gaza-bound Turkish aid vessel is complicating U.S.-led Mideast peace efforts, deepening Israel's international isolation and threatening to destroy the Jewish state's ties with ( Read more... ) -
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Thank you to all of those who served and are serving. We would not be free without you and your sacrifices. -
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For the record, Neuroscience is hard. Statistics is work, but not hard to understand. And religion is frustrating, which is pretty par for the course ( Read more... ) -
Aha moment for the day - thank you shower
We will never be a color blind society. The very concept of color - blindness is a misnomer; humans are designed to segregate themselves into smaller groups. If there is no one of a different color, the segregation happens by wealth, hair color, athletic ability, intelligence, willingness to take risks, and a whole host of other things even so far ( Read more... ) -
Ha ha - a post
Yesterday I made a plan for dinner for the week. Monday I was going to experiment with the whole chicken I bought on sale, Tuesday sirloin tips, wednesday stew, thursday taco night, friday southern style pulled pork. We have been doing better about packing our lunch, so I set a goal of packing our lunches every day so we wouldn't buy food. We went ( Read more... ) -
I'm engaged!!!
Pictures to come once I get them ( Read more... )