November 2010
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I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my...
– Jon Stewart
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Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our...
– Isaac Asimov (prolific hard science fiction author, professor, biochemist, and former vice president of MENSA)
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Piglet: "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh.... What's the first thing you say to yourself?"
Pooh: "What's for breakfast?.... What do you say, Piglet?"
Piglet: "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?"
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Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
Pooh: "It's the same thing."
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Introducing David Eagleman and Possibilianism. I can get down with that. Jackie Tileston passed this along to our Critical Issues class. I love TED talks, and PopTech! are just the sort of geekier version of them- though this one certainly crosses the lines from geeky into inspirational. And above all things, I enjoy evaluating my own belief systems. Not to mention, I appreciate a movement that...
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Key Pennsylvania Race in Dead Heat →
VOTE PA. Please?
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I’m very suspicious of the idea of ‘non-subjects’ in...
– Charlotte Cotton
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