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Apr. 25th, 2004 12:11 amI watched Dr. Strangelove with my dad earlier, then came upstairs and watched 21 Grams. I'm still rather blown away.
Damn, my mom makes some good chili.
Damn, my mom makes some good chili.
Apr. 25th, 2004
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Apr. 25th, 2004 12:45 am$4,000 fine for station that cranked Castro
The Spanish-speaking hosts of "The Morning High Jinks" used snippets of an earlier prank involving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to move the call from a receptionist up the chain to Castro in a five-minute broadcast June 17.
The hosts of the show on WXDJ-FM, Joe Ferrero and Enrique Santos, fed pleasantries to Castro before breaking in and calling him an assassin. The conversation ended after Castro denounced the callers with a stream of vulgarities.
The Spanish-speaking hosts of "The Morning High Jinks" used snippets of an earlier prank involving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to move the call from a receptionist up the chain to Castro in a five-minute broadcast June 17.
The hosts of the show on WXDJ-FM, Joe Ferrero and Enrique Santos, fed pleasantries to Castro before breaking in and calling him an assassin. The conversation ended after Castro denounced the callers with a stream of vulgarities.
One man was arrested for carrying a dead fetus in a jar. Police charged Jeff White with keeping and exhibiting a dead body or part, a felony offense.
[...] Outside the Vatican City Embassy, Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for Free Choice, said: "Between the Bush administration and the Vatican, we're dealing with an unholy alliance of fundamentalists who are trying erode all of women's rights.
"It's not just about abortion. It's not just about family planning. It's about trying to put women back into the kitchens and out of the state houses, and we can't tolerate that."
Members of the American Life League's Crusade for the Defense of Our Catholic Church group carried banners reading: "You can't be Catholic and pro-choice" and "Father forgive them, they know not what they do."
Participant Jack Ames said the members of Catholics for a Free Choice "are not really Catholics."
Abortion supporters, foes rally at Vatican Embassy
[...] Outside the Vatican City Embassy, Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for Free Choice, said: "Between the Bush administration and the Vatican, we're dealing with an unholy alliance of fundamentalists who are trying erode all of women's rights.
"It's not just about abortion. It's not just about family planning. It's about trying to put women back into the kitchens and out of the state houses, and we can't tolerate that."
Members of the American Life League's Crusade for the Defense of Our Catholic Church group carried banners reading: "You can't be Catholic and pro-choice" and "Father forgive them, they know not what they do."
Participant Jack Ames said the members of Catholics for a Free Choice "are not really Catholics."
Abortion supporters, foes rally at Vatican Embassy
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Apr. 25th, 2004 02:10 amWhat this means is that a racist may not know if and when he's being racist, which isn't really very surprising.
'What I said was racist - but I am not a racist. I am an idiot'
'What I said was racist - but I am not a racist. I am an idiot'
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Apr. 25th, 2004 02:38 amWhen I was in high school, I tutored several students. Funnily enough, all of my students needed help in math. I never tutored anyone in English.
When you're learning trig, it's difficult to teach someone the fundamentals of fractions. Then again, the sixth-grader I tutored was in serious need of fundamentals. After a few sessions with her, it became obvious that I couldn't teach her fractions until she understood her multiplication tables. If memory serves me right, her parents helped her in that respect, not me. (She should not have been in sixth grade without knowing her multiplication tables! This is what my brain screams to me now.) It took me awhile to get her to understand that one whole equaled 1.
I wonder if she still remembers me, and what impression I might have made on her.
When you're learning trig, it's difficult to teach someone the fundamentals of fractions. Then again, the sixth-grader I tutored was in serious need of fundamentals. After a few sessions with her, it became obvious that I couldn't teach her fractions until she understood her multiplication tables. If memory serves me right, her parents helped her in that respect, not me. (She should not have been in sixth grade without knowing her multiplication tables! This is what my brain screams to me now.) It took me awhile to get her to understand that one whole equaled 1.
I wonder if she still remembers me, and what impression I might have made on her.
So odd to see my life in an article
Apr. 25th, 2004 02:05 pmThe Working Poor
I don't "qualify" as poor--I make too much for a family of one. However, if I weren't living with my parents and getting such a sweet deal ($300 for a room, utilities and board included), I'd be in dire straits. Also, my father qualifies for food benefits, and he visits a pantry at least once a month.
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I don't "qualify" as poor--I make too much for a family of one. However, if I weren't living with my parents and getting such a sweet deal ($300 for a room, utilities and board included), I'd be in dire straits. Also, my father qualifies for food benefits, and he visits a pantry at least once a month.
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I love being an armchair neuroanatomist
Apr. 25th, 2004 03:18 pmEureka! Scientists map the moment
Mark Jung-Beeman and Edward Bowden of Northwestern University, and John Kounios of Drexel University, report in the Public Library of Science journal Biology today that the so-called "Aha!" moment is accompanied by a burst of telltale neural activity in the right hemisphere of the brain.
[...] The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging to watch what happened in the brain as volunteers tackled word puzzles such as, "What word links the following three: fence, card and master? Answer: Post." Each volunteer was asked to record whether the answer was arrived at gradually or in a flash that felt like insight. Most of the laborious thinking activity seemed to be in the brain's left hemisphere. But the "aha!" moment was recorded in the right temporal lobe, in a region called the anterior superior temporal gyrus.
[...] "People often reach an impasse and are not able to make any progress," Dr Bowden said. "They need to reinterpret and integrate information in a new way. Sometimes the mind does this unconsciously and then the solution suddenly appears in the conscious. To the solver, the solution seems to have come out of thin air, yet is obviously correct.
Dr Jung-Beeman said: "Archimedes sudden observation that water displacement could be used to calculate density resulted from his connecting known concepts in new ways. This is the nature of many insights, the recognition of new connections across existing knowledge."
Mark Jung-Beeman and Edward Bowden of Northwestern University, and John Kounios of Drexel University, report in the Public Library of Science journal Biology today that the so-called "Aha!" moment is accompanied by a burst of telltale neural activity in the right hemisphere of the brain.
[...] The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging to watch what happened in the brain as volunteers tackled word puzzles such as, "What word links the following three: fence, card and master? Answer: Post." Each volunteer was asked to record whether the answer was arrived at gradually or in a flash that felt like insight. Most of the laborious thinking activity seemed to be in the brain's left hemisphere. But the "aha!" moment was recorded in the right temporal lobe, in a region called the anterior superior temporal gyrus.
[...] "People often reach an impasse and are not able to make any progress," Dr Bowden said. "They need to reinterpret and integrate information in a new way. Sometimes the mind does this unconsciously and then the solution suddenly appears in the conscious. To the solver, the solution seems to have come out of thin air, yet is obviously correct.
Dr Jung-Beeman said: "Archimedes sudden observation that water displacement could be used to calculate density resulted from his connecting known concepts in new ways. This is the nature of many insights, the recognition of new connections across existing knowledge."
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Apr. 25th, 2004 10:48 pmEnlightening reading:
Meet the Press transcript for April 25: Bob Woodward & Prince Bandar bin Sultan
Addendum: After I read this, I noted that the show was being rerun at 10:00 p.m. and 1 a.m. I'd missed the morning broadcast, so I wanted to see this at some point if possible. I waited, of course, until 1 a.m.
It was a bit surreal to hear the men state the transcript I'd already read, but it was instructive to see how the words were delivered. The transcript doesn't reflect, for instance, the intense questioning that Russert subjected Bandar to. Also, it doesn't show how often Bandar resorted to reading from prepared notes.
Meet the Press transcript for April 25: Bob Woodward & Prince Bandar bin Sultan
Addendum: After I read this, I noted that the show was being rerun at 10:00 p.m. and 1 a.m. I'd missed the morning broadcast, so I wanted to see this at some point if possible. I waited, of course, until 1 a.m.
It was a bit surreal to hear the men state the transcript I'd already read, but it was instructive to see how the words were delivered. The transcript doesn't reflect, for instance, the intense questioning that Russert subjected Bandar to. Also, it doesn't show how often Bandar resorted to reading from prepared notes.