This pisses me off.  The American Academy of Family Physicians publishes a number of journals, makes their submitting authors sign away the ownership of their writing upon publication, and then charges $100 when those authors want to reuse any single piece of the material that they themselves created in another publication. Sometimes it's as much ( Read more... )

...But that's not what this post is about.

I need to SERIOUSLY let out some angst about an article that was recently published in Psychology Today called, "Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature" by AS Miller and S Kanazawa.  Not that Psych Today is a reliable source of scholarly (much less peer-reviewed) work, but it is, perhaps, the ( Read more... )

Holy Crap, this is so exciting!  A couple months ago at my gym, I was working out facing the indoor basketball court, and there was a woman in there doing Aerial Acrobatics from basically just a long piece of cloth like so: (this is actually her)


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Contrary to what the title of this entry would have you think, I am thrilled!  My boss came to me today to ask if I would be willing to take on the Managing Editor role on another journal: Depression and Anxiety

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I just finished reading Ken Miller's Finding Darwin's God, which took me the whole summer, but was well worth the weeks of commitment.  I would say this book is a MUST-READ particularly for any person who allies him or herself with a monotheistic faith tradition.  For those who ally themselves more with scientific materialism, I would also strongly ( Read more... )

For some ungodly reason, I was awake this morning at 8:48 and could not fall back to sleep. 
I had a hilarious night last night.  It started with an open-bar party in honor of the release of my boss' husband's first SciFi novel, The Electric Church (look for it in stores!).  It ended at a karaoke bar on the lower east side.  But the best part by ( Read more... )

I signed up for Netflix and am totally excited about it.  I have the american Office and The Painted Vail coming tomorrow.  After that, the possibilities are endless.  Recommendations anyone?

My 3-day weekend was emotionally strange and vaguely tumultuous.  I went to Providence with my family to drop my youngest sister off at Brown.  Because the significance and the implications (many of which I'm unclear of; they remain to be seen) of having the youngest in my family go off to college was not really on my mind much until Friday.  It ( Read more... )

You know what's fun.  Stepping out of bed in the morning to an inch of water covering your entire basement bedroom.  Y'all should really try it some time.

What is it about carnage that attracts people like freaking maggots to meat?  My blood always boils when highway traffic gets stopped up for miles because of rubber-neckers hoping for a glimpse of a gurney or puddle of blood.  Often there's nothing to see.   Today however, I was driving home from a family reunion with my dad and sister, and there ( Read more... )