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Time and Being
There's an unnoticed convergence between two strands of academic literature on schizophrenia: 1) a neurological 'soft signs' approach that reveals subtle but pervasive dysmetrias -- abnormal postural homeostasis and eye movement, disordered temporal structuring of events occurring closely together, phase-lagged reaction to stimuli leading to ( Read more... ) -
Talk
So, here's something interesting ( Read more... ) -
Decline
Christian says: "If you want to understand Russia, imagine the Khanate riding into every town, taking the thirty most beautiful women and killing the thirty most able men -- every few years for a hundred years. Everything after that makes a bit more sense ( Read more... ) -
Glasgow Kiss (Male'ah ha'aretz kinyanecha)
"It's like love! Only it hurts more."
"I disagree."
"What, that it's like love?"
". . . no. Nevermind."
I don't know why I said that, but I suspected then, and know now, who really heard it.
* * * * *"The people you think will help you, won't; the people you don't expect, will. . . . If you can't, then you must; if you must, then you can ( Read more... ) -
Poetry Corner (A Taste of Things to Come)
I start my city with a brick (one brick)
Then add another brick (two bricks)
Brick by brick, I manufacture homes for fallen angels
I ain't no great Samaritan, that's just the way the game goes -
Department of things you'd know if you paid attention in high school chem
. . . and little things that make me sigh: people who will acknowledge that frying with vegetable oil is unhealthy and yet think that polyunsaturated fats are good for you in low-temperature cooking. Increasing ambient temperature is just one way to facilitate (lipid) oxidation; lowering ambient pH is another. What do you think is happening when ( Read more... ) -
Model Error
"The mean value of acute fatality risk by radiation exposure resultant from an accident of a nuclear installation to individuals of the public, who live in the vicinity of the site boundary of the nuclear installation, should not exceed the probability of about 1x10^6 per year."
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Better (I): Atemporal Living
I've experimented a bit with what makes me more effective at getting stuff done while staying sane, with more failures than successes. Here is one thing that works for me: schedule as little as possible. At first it seems like a terrible idea because in lieu of a clear agenda you tend to just do the first thing that grabs your attention, and can ( Read more... ) -
Shedding Error
Difficult admissions ( Read more... ) -
Quote of the Day
"... the whole system is a fine case of the proverbial self-licking ice-cream cone, not to mention a substantial source of distraction, or as we naively call it 'employment' ... this is after all one of the main purposes of the university system: to employ extremely intelligent people, who might otherwise be out causing trouble, in tasks that ( Read more... )
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