I got the same email when I used an excerpt from a TED talk in a video lecture I made for my class. Because TED licenses their stuff pretty openly, YT was just notifying me and it was no problem.

I lectured on designing visual aids in my public speaking class last Thursday and predicted this post to the class. Thank you Jesus for making me look clairvoyant.

I'll grant that breastfeeding is, in most circumstances, the best nutritional and health approach for infants, no problem. Hospitals should be encouraging best medical practices, absolutely. The idea that a woman would make a choice about how to feed her child/ren and then get a government-sponsored "talking-to,"…

Zotero>Mendeley. Zotero integrates better with Word and OpenOffice, integrates with databases very well, and handles non-database web sources much better. On top of that, it has more flexibility in citation styles, note taking, and sharing/collaboration. And on top of that, Zotero is open source and non-profit,…

The numbers only look large because we don't have any context for them. If it were 7 suicides in a year, it would be a out 2.5 times the female suicide rate in Denmark, and that would be a big deal. If the study looked at a ten year period, then we could expect 64 suicides, and 7 would look really good. Also, it…

There is a psychologist who researches what the zone (or what he calls "flow) is. Specifically, the conditions that lead to it.

I'd been looking for driver updates and such to see if there might be hardware conflicts, but checking the event viewer had not occurred to me. I did, there was a controller error with the optical drive, I uninstalled and rebooted, and gloriosky! it works now. I knew the #openthread would help me out on this. …

No help in the other corners of the Internet so maybe a fellow LHer has an answer. Toshiba Satellite L-305 running Win7 suddenly stopped sleeping and hibernating. I had not changed any power options, though I've been hunting for a month now. No matter how I try to sleep the thing (close lid, press power button, go…

First-gen students do have lots of challenges to face, but they are also clearly not doomed to failure, nor should the failure of some first-gen students in any diminish the joy that this girl feels at becoming one. The data is clear, but more importantly, as Bertie.W suggests, the experience of first-gen students is…

Can we all just wait a damn minute? I respect and like Clinton. Four years ago, I supported Obama in the primary because I thought he was better suited to the presidency. I'd hoped Clinton would stay in the Senate and become the next Ted Kennedy (respected, principled liberal, able to work across the aisle as…

If you're talking about a Nook Color, just install the Dropbox app and you're done. If it's a SimpleTouch, root it, install the Dropbox app, and you're done. I use Calibre also and this is how I get my weekly news downloads.

By "DirecTV," you meant erect, right?

Instapaper's bookmarklet now handles multipage articles: [blog.instapaper.com]

Also, DC was much closed to the middle of the country when it was designated the capital.

Current favorite is I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen ([www.amazon.com]). The animals have no facial expressions, which makes for a pseudo-autistic reading. Kind of hilarious. Also, since I have a 21 month old, she doesn't really get what's going on. Our friends' four year old though freaked the fuck out when she…

First, ask for more money from School A. Second, don't be afraid of loans, they're not as bad as they used to be (and most people don't know why!) The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2008 made all federal loans eligible for two programs. One is income-based repayment. Short version: you pay based on how…

Went and read the actual article and found this nugget: "According to Moody, every same-sex marriage has a net child capacity of zero, meaning each same-sex married couple does not contribute to their community's population as would a heterosexual couple. "

Don't forget the obvious: if same-sex couples aren't reproducing within a marriage, they're probably not reproducing outside of marriage either, meaning marriage has absolutely no impact on the overall reproductive rate of New Hampshire. DA's non-unique, move on.

Lay employees of churches and church-affiliated organizations are definitely not covered by this ruling. The woman in this case, sought out and studied for special recognition by the church, was called by the church in a ministerial role to her position, was held out as a minister by the church and by herself prior…

We are mutually fived. This story's been rankling me for days. Brownback has been rankling me for years. His apology was surprising, largely because it actually included the words "I apologize." He still blows though.