Random links
- I'd love to baptise ET, says Vatican's stargazer
- "Any entity - no matter how many tentacles it has - has a soul" - Guy Consolmagno of the Vatican observatory
- Where Boys Are Prized, Girls Live the Part
- "There are no statistics about how many Afghan girls masquerade as boys. But when asked, Afghans of several generations can often tell a story of a female relative, friend, neighbor or co-worker who grew up disguised as a boy."
- Afghans vote despite attacks, turnout appears low
- Surprise, surprise... a low turnout and lots of fraud.
- Left-handed? Then you're more likely to be angry
- No doubt the rest of you are all thinking that this explains a lot. The actual paper is entitled "Negative Emotional Valence Is Associated With Non-Right-Handedness and Increased Imbalance of Hemispheric Activation as Measured by Tympanic Membrane Temperature," although somehow I like the Daily Mail title better. BTW, what's with calling left-handedness "non-right-handedness"?
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Sarennah
Sun, 2010-10-03 00:38
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Pope-mobile
That's quite the car. I guess it's not surprising with the bulletproof glass, but I was pretty surprised about the gas air filters part!
Sarennah
Sun, 2010-10-03 00:40
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Oops was trying to respond to
Oops was trying to respond to the other article!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1311980/POPE-VISIT-Holy-Merc-transport-Benedict-XVI-UK.html
Sarennah
Sun, 2010-10-03 00:41
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The Afghan girls growing up
The Afghan girls growing up as boys as interesting --and seemingly historic. But one has to wonder how long you can carry on that charade. Or even, how long you'd WANT to carry on that charade?