I survived my wisdom teeth surgey. I expected to be in worse pain ( Read more... )

Morning,

I know it is a bit out of character for me to talk about myself on LiveJournal, but I presumed there might be a smidge of interest. So, I present some life news:

SchoolI am graduating UMass Lowell this year and I have been accepted to the Computer Science PhD program at Brown. I am very excited about this and will be starting there ( Read more... )

Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap-and What Women Can Do About It

Warren Farrell, the only man to have been elected three times to the National Organization for Women’s New York board of directors, is the author of such books as The Myth of Male Power and Why Men Are the Way They Are. In his new book, he argues ( Read more... )

Guess who is number one for "Projectile Vomit" on Google Image search?

http://images.google.com/images?q=projectile%20vomit

Yup, that's me.

Yes!

Shabot 6000 Flash Video

Did you know "Hummer" is German for "Lobster"? Hah. I don't know if that was a conscious choice though.

Thanks for all your support guys, but it looks like I won't be elected the Vicar of Christ. But, who knows what will happen next election cycle!

Tyler Cowen links to a story about how dogs communicate with humans.

...dogs' barks have evolved into a relatively sophisticated way of communicating with humans. Adam Miklósi, an ethology professor, set out in a recent experiment to see if humans can interpret what dogs mean when they bark. He recruited 90 human volunteers and played ( Read more... )

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on love in America.

I've asked women in female audiences around the world, it's so funny to see this - no matter where you are, be it a non-Jewish audience in the Netherlands two months ago, to Jewish audiences in New York, "who here needs a man?" You will see three or four hands go up. I don't mean three or four ( Read more... )

(Remember kids, you can be conservative and feminist at the same time without imploding.)

Totalitarianism Today on a book on feminism.

Boteach asks his readers to imagine the following scenario:

"....a television show that took thirty Jews to a castle in France, and told them that the had the opportunity of ( Read more... )