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Submitted by David on Mon, 2010-08-09 16:55

Pearls Before Swine

Weird weddings and "weddings"

Submitted by David on Mon, 2010-08-09 09:10

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Submitted by David on Sun, 2010-08-08 15:52
Obesity Rates Keep Rising, Troubling Health Officials
The crazy part of this obesity trend is just how fast it's developed. Look at their graphs illustrating how quickly the prevalence of obesity has grown in the U.S. within just the last decade.
Lauded economist slams census decision
"I think it’s ridiculous the government would intervene and tell Statistics Canada how to collect its information" - I'm sure other polling agencies would appreciate the ability to threaten people with jail time if they refused to divulge information. Obviously there's no reason for the government to exert any control over Statistics Canada.
Coroner praises man who urinated on crashed gyrocopter to stop it bursting into flames
There's always room for the occasional weird news story
Reaching the Last Technology Holdouts at the Front of the Classroom
The article does note that "Technology isn't the only way to improve teaching, of course, and some argue that it can hinder it", but personally I'd argue that generally speaking people who "teach with technology" are on average worse instructors than those who don't.

A couple of novels to read

Submitted by David on Sat, 2010-08-07 18:08
  • Blindness by Jose Saramago
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

    • I read both of the above fairly recently. While novels, they're also of the more thought-provoking form I found. The first looks at what might happen if blindness became contagious and caught on like an epidemic. I'm not quite sure how to describe the second - I'd like to say that it addresses medical ethics, that description really seems to fail to capture the story.

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