Echoes of ideas

In trying to find a specific reference to a comment in willshetterly's journal, I leafed through some of my old college papers. Funny, the stuff that drifts up at two a.m.

Here's a paper that garnered me an A (though I admit at the start that my methods could be better: I could have done my observations through an entire week): ( Mass Media and the Social Construction of Whiteness )

My prof's notes: "Very good discussion & analysis of material; original"

Amazing

Trapped Chinese miners survive on coal, urine diet

Two Chinese brothers who tunneled their way out of a coal mine collapse after being trapped for nearly six days survived by eating coal and drinking urine, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.

[...] "At first there was no feeling, but then I was so hungry I couldn't crawl any more," Xianchen told the Beijing News. "I got so hungry, I ate a piece of coal, and I thought it quite fragrant.

"Actually, coal is bitter and unsmooth but you can chew up pieces the size of a finger. In the mine, we picked up two discarded water bottles, and drank our urine. You can only take small sips, and when you've finished, you just want to cry."

He said because they were eating coal, and were in the mine for nearly six days, they did not defecate.

"We were only able to do that the day before yesterday in hospital. It was full of coal."

Both said they would not go back into mining.

But their younger brother, Meng Xianjun, who has a decade of experience in the mines, cut in to the interview to add: "I'll still do it."

(no subject)

Salmonella outbreak probed: Washtenaw County officials suspect local cases are linked -- One of my coworkers was stricken.

(no subject)

fizzyland makes no statement on the state of the nation.