The more I look at the political world, the more I feel that the most significant division is not between "liberal" and "conservative", but rather between "analysts" and "partisans ( Read more... )

Here's the video! So much for making it all short and sweet, it seems we droned on for a whole fifteen minutes. :-P Everything snowballed a little bit but I think we did a pretty good job of avoiding excessive wedding tedium!

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Gosh, it's been nearly ten years of writing here on LJ, and for a good while I've considered myself an LJ diehard, but the juice just isn't flowing anymore ( Read more... )

This video is long but highly entertaining. Hat tip to kevynjacobs. I thought the falsehood of the "lone genius" concept was the most significant point - just taking that into account takes care of 90% of the cranks. I'm not sure that any significant progress in science has EVER come about without the engagement of a larger community ( Read more... )

Statement by the AAAS on the safety of genetically modified foods ( Read more... )

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Been thinking about filled dumplings lately. I had a few days at home alone and at such times I tend to do weird things in the kitchen. So, I started to consider why dumplings were made as they are ( Read more... )

I have a pretty high regard for Wikipedia, because whenever I look at an article where my own knowledge is authoritative, it gets it pretty much right. It's not perfect, and I have found a few minor but glaring errors, but when it's used for what it's meant to be used for - as a first introduction and an entry point into the secondary literature ( Read more... )

I find it so interesting that my mood can change so much over time. It's kind of inconvenient, actually - the times when I'm wildly ambitious, I have lots of great-seeming ideas which I jot down for future reference. Then later, I think, WTF - you must be kidding. My task list gets weighted down with all sorts of interesting-seeming things that are ( Read more... )

OK, it turns out you CAN host an album on G+ and conveniently embed the photo here. Is this presentation disagreeable in any way? (Wrong size, clipped, annoying, etc.) If you guys like it I'll use this method in the future.


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