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The reason I blogged during the daytime this week is that I was off work. The reason I was off work was little Zach. For the first four weeks of his life, Zach was under the daytime care of Offering Boy, who was charged with helping the puppy feel loved and getting him housetrained. [...]

By Thoreau
I’m getting closer and closer to being a kool-aid drinker.  Here’s the latest episode.
There’s a national organization that is working on increasing the number of undergraduate physics majors.  As much as I grumble about some of the contradictions embraced by professional societies on workforce issues, I do support the goal of increasing the number [...]

Also at our more-popular neighbor-blog, Tim F asks for summer-reading recommendations. I just finished a couple books I liked or loved. First comes Patricia McConnell’s The Other End of the Leash. This is less a dog-training book than a “meta-training” book – memoir, ethology text, and tips&tricks book under one cover. The thrust of the [...]

Anne Laurie at Balloon Juice writes about the new media talking point that Americans don’t deserve better health care because we’re a bunch of big fat slobs. America’s obesity epidemic even explains, to Maria Bartiromo, our high infant mortality rates: damn babies need to stop stuffing themselves with all that breast milk and hit the [...]