Apr 2015
- Apr 7
- Severus Snape
Why Snape's Tragic Back Story Isn't So Tragic • Dorkly • 2015 Mar 31
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- empathizing with black clouds
Why Some Depressed People Hate Being Told to 'Cheer Up' • PsyBlog • 2015 Apr 21 (via TYWKIWDBI)
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- penicillin G is a hell of a drug
Beethoven's cause of death diagnosis • OUPblog • 2015 Mar 26 (via TYWKIWDBI)
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- Thomas Jefferson and originalism
TIL: Thomas Jefferson argued that because no generation has a right to bind subsequent generations, the Constitution should expire every 19 years • /r/todayilearned • 2015 Apr 15 (via TYWKIWDBI)
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- Oklahoma City bombing
Oklahoma City bombing: 20 years later, key questions remain unanswered • The Guardian • 2015 Apr 13 (via TYWKIWDBI)
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- the neurophysiology of homophone typos
Stop shaming people on the Internet for grammar mistakes. Its not there fault. • WaPo • 2015 Apr 17
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- ramen bath
Korean spas don't have this, do they?
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- the critical importance of adequate sleep
Sleep is productive and an excellent use of your time ;)
· Read more… - Apr 22
- poo emoji
I keep Googling the poo emoji to copy-and-paste so much that Google wants me to buy a shirt with poo emoji pattern.
· Read more… - Apr 24
- waiting for version 1 of Carrot
OK, maybe I need to get off my computer for a while. I saw a Facebook ad that said Carrot 0.99 and Artichoke 1.29 and my first thought was that they were app names and version numbers instead of prices for produce.
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- Josie Rizal
So while converting a really old blog entry to Jekyll, I followed an old link regarding the game Tekken (which my friends in med school and I spent an absurd amount of time playing when we weren't studying or drinking) and discovered that there's a new character in Tekken 7 named Josie Rizal named after Philippine national hero José Rizal. o_O
· Read more… - Apr 28
- Random Glimpses of the Future?
A prediction from 2001 that now appears to be a forecast of 2014: “…it’s some fairy-tale of the future—someone to have kids with, to grow old with, to buy a house with, to go on vacations to Hawaii or Puerto Vallarta with.”
· Read more… - Apr 30
- Election 2016
I know people in swing states who supported Ralph Nader during the 2000 election get a lot of crap for allowing the Bush administration to happen, but, really, Al Gore ran a crappy campaign and the SCOTUS overruled the popular vote. Obviously, the people who actually voted for Bush deserve the brunt of the blame for that administration.
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