James Watson's Greatest Hits. Seriously, everything I've seen about Watson and Crick indicated that they're total assholes.

Daily randomness.

Article on International Adoption, an issue I'm concerned with for personal reasons.

I don't like the way they frame the problems as being a result of the adoption process. There is always a chance that children will have problems, and they should have published some statistics comparing rates of problems among adopted children and "natural"

Darth Vader vs. Japanese cops. Those wacky Japanese.

Line of thought to follow later: imposition of Russian contemporary values upon Muslim states of the federated USSR ie unveiling by force, with the stated purpose of establishing equal rights.

Pederasty in the Middle East and Central Asia

The fact that there is an entire article on the subject is an excellent example of why Wikipedia is the most awesome reference ever.

Heh. My term paper concludes like a Neal Stephenson novel.

Female suicide bomber in Iraq. The FLA's most famous terrorist strike against France was when two women smuggled bombs onboard a French passenger jet, actually.

Verbal: 99th percentile
Math: 82nd percentile
Writing: 88th percentile

Suck on it, prospective grad students!

Most recent draft of my Statement of Purpose. Any comments would be welcome. Please, help this poor starving student ( Read more... )