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Archive for November 9th, 2007

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Of “Good” Drugs and Consequences

By Mona
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Whether a blogger should write of their highly personal issues, and to what degree, is a matter of individual judgment. I’ve been pondering this for months, and have decided it is worth warning people of both the up- and down-side of certain anti-depressant medications.
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Last fall I was prescribed the selective serotonin [...]

Friday, November 9th, 2007

The curriculum reformer front of Judea vs. the Judean curriculum reformers front

By Thoreau
I don’t really have it in me right now to recap everything being discussed at this conference on physics pedagogy.  I’ve heard a lot of it before, some of it is new, a lot of it is interesting, I’m skeptical of a lot of it anyway, some people hate what I have to say, [...]

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Titan: only happy when it rains

By Thoreau
Today’s weather forecast for Titan is morning drizzle.
No real comment, just kind of cool. Cooler than what they’re talking about in the workshop.

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Patrick, You Ignorant Slut

Downblog in comments, pnh avers . . .
I’m sure you know that by saying “record,” you and I both mark ourselves as aging geezers, just as sure as if we were saying “mind you” or “sonny boy.”
I’m not so sure this is, or will remain, true. In fact, I was thinking just the other day [...]

Friday, November 9th, 2007

They could have filibustered

By Thoreau
But they didn’t.
It was 53-40 for Mukasey. 6 Democrats jumped ship. I won’t blame each and every member of the party (and I invite you to re-read that as many times as you deem necessary), but as far as I can tell a filibuster was possible. 40 Democrats voted against Mukasey, [...]