Posted in Arts, Emotion, Math, Media, Natural Sciences, history on May 28th, 2009 1 Comment »
Although I realise that you might be ignoring my postings at this point (though you do still get a grade for commenting), I will continue to share. I don’t believe that knowledge and learning stop once a particular deadline has been met or a report card has been issued. Plus, some of these articles are [...]
Posted in Language, Natural Sciences on May 26th, 2009 3 Comments »
This is an intriguing article – a bit morbid, but worth reading (particularly for those of you interested in medicine):
Autopsies of War Dead
Language and Gender Stereotypes: Two Slate writers discuss Obama’s use of a “gendered code word” in his search for a Supreme Court nominee (Note: he just nominated Sonia Sotomayor). Such words, they argue, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Quantitative vs. Qualitative Data
Posted in Ethics, Natural Sciences on May 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Is My Marriage Gay? (a rather amusing piece about ridiculous laws)
Patenting Genes (a rather disturbing piece about gene monopolies)
Posted in General on May 12th, 2009 No Comments »
The NY Times has a blog called “The Choice”, which aims to demystify “college admission and aid” in the United States. This week they are running a Question & Answer Session with a college counsellor.
I thought you might be interested in reading this, since many of you are probably starting to think about which schools [...]
