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Yearly Archives: 2009

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  • 6 Aug 2009

    The New Coolest Profession: Statistician

    In today’s New York Times, a wonderful piece – the cool profession of the future: statistician. My mathematician friends rejoice!

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  • 4 Aug 2009
    Disturbances of the Mind

    Does Your Mind’s Eye See This?

    The first documented case of Bonnet’s syndrome involved a 90 year old man with poor eyesight. As the days darkened, he began to see visions: thirty foot carriages, imaginary visitors, women with boxes on their heads, and dancing butterflies.

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  • 4 Aug 2009

    LHC Has Bad Wiring

    Does the summer heat have your liquid helium-cooled superconductivity in a quench? That’s nothing compared to the current state of the Large Hadron Collider.

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  • 3 Aug 2009

    Chicago Tribune on New G.I. Bill

    In an article about recent changes to the GI Bill, The Chicago Tribune spoke with Kathleen Frydl, author of The GI Bill: ” widows of servicemen killed in World War II… asked for tuition so they could go to college and become self-supporting… Congress steadfastly refused that.” The new bill allows for benefits to go […]

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  • 3 Aug 2009

    Vast Medieval Satanic Conspiracy

    Harry Potter should be glad he practices his wizarding in the modern world. European sorcerers had a much less pleasant time of things in 1486, when the Malleus Maleficarum - “The Hammer of Witches” - was first published.

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  • 31 Jul 2009

    Kittens with Mittens

    It’s Friday. In case that’s not enough to cheer you up, here’s an otherwise unrelated cat trying to walk with mittens on!

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  • 30 Jul 2009
    Janet Afary

    Janet Afary on Women’s Rights in Iran

    Janet Afary concludes a dialogue with Nawal El Saadawi initiated at Double X earlier this month. Afary is a professor of religious studies and feminist studies at UC Santa Barbara and author of 'Sexual Politics in Modern Iran'. El Saadawi is an Egyptian writer famous for her outspokenness, particularly on the issue of women's rights.

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  • 29 Jul 2009

    Turkington on VOA

    Voice of America’s One Hour at a Time featured Cognitive Behavioral Therapy expert and psychiatrist Douglas Turkington on a recent show. Listen here! >>

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