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it's so cool to be up for dawn. i like it when you can first start to tell that the sky is going from black to a deep, dark blue and day is breaking, pushing itself forward into existence. it continues to get bluer and bluer, lighter and lighter, unfolding and unfurling like a flower bud. clearly, it makes me wax and wane poetical!

Here are two very interesting articles my friend Clara shared with me, and so I am sharing them with you.

( Salary, Gender and the Social Cost of Haggling )

There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first-the Orwellian-culture becomes a prison. In the second-the Huxleyan-culture becomes a burlesque. No one needs to be reminded that our world [has been] marred by many prison cultures whose structure Orwell described accurately in his parables. If one were to read both ( Read more... )

It is not in the American experience to think about limits on energy. . . . Yet by the late 1960s and early 1970s, limits on the energy base in [the United States] began to surface. . . . Environmentalism made its influence felt in a large number of ways: in such legislation as the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean ( Read more... )

Okay, everyone, here's the deal: there are lots of bacterial goodies out there that have developed significant resistance to antibiotics. You all know this already. We, as human beings, successfully wasted away our wonder drug Penicillin by thoroughly neglecting evolution by natural selection and how that plays into a domain of life that not only ( Read more... )

In taking practice exams, some of the passages I have had to read and answer questions about are actually really interesting. There are a few of you that I think would enjoy these excerpts from books, papers, etc. Here is the first one. I will post two more in a while. If I find more, I will post even more.

First ExcerptIn a fundamental sense ( Read more... )

I received an email titled, "No more floppy dick." What a relief! I was wondering what to do! Just my luck that this email should miraculously and auspiciously arrive.

But then, my email had marked it as spam. Just think, I could have missed out on the secret to a non-floppy dick. What a world.