The holiday warning goes especially for Christian countries. I kept finding all the museums closed or my route to the train I had a ticket for blocked by a parade for yet another random saint’s day when I was traveling around Europe. I’m not sure when they actually work over there, as I’m not sure there were actually…

Nixon tried to pass health care reform.

ARPA’s whole job is to play around with ideas that the military is pretty sure won’t work but want’s to check into anyway. It’s the crazy bullshit branch.

I think that wiring has become more complex and spread throughout the walls, so making the kids more confident in their ability to take a go at home repair is somewhat unwise.

Apparently, the financial classes were cut when people started finding that the kids who took them didn’t do as well as the kids who were just given more time in math. The theorized reason is that the financial classes would teach rote rules that weren’t always true and the kids would forget, anyway, while the math…

I’m guessing part of it was also economic and built-environment changes. This would be most evident for the boys’ classes, as the increasing complexity of home elctrification and HVAC made the wisdom encouraging the untrained to go mucking about in their walls increasingly dubious, but the food scene splitting between…

I don’t know what that is. For all I know, vaccinated kids are banned there, which I assume to also be the policy at Christian Science schools.

People tend to forget that the Democratic Party and its liberal base were the ones with the anti-science reputation and stances prior to one specific environmental issue happening to support liberal environmental and industrial biases and contradict conservative economic ideology. For most of the twentieth century,…

A relevant H.G. Wells story.

Apparently, a lot of religious schools have been getting applications for religious exemptions. Day schools often react by getting the staff rabbi to call and mock these parents.

Someone gave my local Chabad a bad review for being too expensive. Chabad is free. Similarly, my shul has a one star review complaining that “a very rude lady answered the phone.”

This is more of a public health and political science concept, basically a way to figure out who has the power to stop you and who’s actually affected (read: fucked over) by your decisions (read: fuck-up).

In stakeholder analysis, she’s an equal stakeholder but a subordinate power wielder, like the general public (especially the poor) in urban policy debates.

One of the members of my MPH cohort worked on a vegetable introduction study for her practicum. The central finding was that teaching kids to appreciate vegetables can be done in much the same way that you teach adults to appreciate wine: you introduce a wide variety and talk about the flavour in both an absolute and…

I mean, it got three likes in as many minutes despite being quite late.

After that, it’s all down hill. I barely remember who my dog is sometimes, and I’m only twenty... hmmm... I’m going to need to go check.

It also has a roomy second row, which makes it seem social. Personally, I’d get her a Mazda5 and customize it with her until it’s cool or get her a motor scooter so she can give off an urbane vibe (Honda’s announced that it’s going to bring the Super Cub stateside and is going to roll out an electric, so I’d look into…

I got my first car (new Mazda3 hatch w/ no options because my family believes and taught me that those are for suckers) partly as thanks for graduating a semester early, which makes $20K seem like a bit of a bargain.

People who survived tend to have survived.

Of course, that won’t do much to change the split you get based on what facts you prefer to look at. The Atlantic presented a good example of that in economic news, specifically in how conservatives (now) prefer to look at unemployment and hours data so they get a rosy picture and liberals (now) prefer to look at GINI…