The extent to which quantitative analysis adds value to messy things like conflict is a longstanding debate (or wedge issue or open question) in the international affairs community. You can consider that in conjunction with this review of books on the brain: how much can looking at brain areas tell us about what goes on in the mind? I've sort of regretted not taking more (any?) neuroscience in college--I was more interested, like the reviewer, in the social psychology stuff--and I wouldn't mind getting back into it now, but not out of the sense that I missed out. Anyway, you can also pair that piece about consciousness with this piece on whether a corporation has concsiousness.
Tell people who tell you to smile that they're being culturally hegemonistic.
The spawn of the Title IX generation is full of fighters... in pink. Nothing wrong with that, I guess, but let boys have their My Little Pony, too.
Baby-showerzillas are the new bridezillas.
Dr. Peiris said it best about the Daily Fail's epic fail:
I deeply pity the sort of person who can watch a report about ground-breaking news on the origins of the universe and everything in it, and see only the gender and skin colour of the panellists.Well, there goes a major plot point in "Avenue Q." BTW, I once had to suffer through a pack (gaggle?) of physicists at a party debating whether Spider Man would ever reach terminal velocity.
Remember my review of "Particle Fever," which included past references to the idea that it behooves us all to understand complicated things--and for those who understand them very well to help us understand them a bit, instead of dismissing us as a lost cause? That's why Phil Plait wants you to tell your kids why the sky
You'll cringe at the corny batman theme stuff, but Karen Salmansohn's take on toxic relationships is spot on. Recall the truest words ever uttered, by Maya Angelou: "When someone shows you who they are, believe it." But so many of us spend a lot of time making excuses for other people.
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