Snake-fighting, higher ed, and you.

Instructions here.

Via Boing Boing.
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How to Land Your Kid in Therapy

Check out this article in The Atlantic.

Haven't finished reading it yet, but mentions a bunch of authors, studies and such I think you're familiar with. Might be of great interest.

Technology and Teen Brains

Via Boing Boing.

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An Honor to Be of Assistance

Apparently when the first letter "H" in a word is mute you use the article "an" before it. I guess it's about the sound of the word rather than the actual spelling.

So says this.

Presumably this rule applies to the phrase "An Hundred" as a holdover from back in the day when everyone in the world spoke with a cockney accent.

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Contrastive reduplication

The phrase may not sound familiar from your English classes, but you'd know it when you heard it. Apparently it's now a categorized thing that someone wrote a paper on:

This paper presents a phenomenon of colloquial English that we call Contrastive Reduplication (CR), involving the copying of words and sometimes phrases as in It''s tuna salad, not SALAD-salad, or Do you LIKE-HIM-like him?

Via Boing Boing, via Mark Rabnett's Posterous.

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Phil & Teds Sport Buggy Instructions

Baby Moral Development

You may know about this already, but thought you might find it of interest:

Link.

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Regarding your recent Netflix favorite streaming choice

Battlefield Earth screenwriter apologizes!

Link!

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Gnome Stew Review of Geek's Dream Girl

Link to article here.

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What was life like before birth

Article on fetal sensory development.


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Facebook Games and the Military-Industrial Complex

Just thought you might like to know that your Farmville produce is going to feed the dogs of war.

At least according to this article on India's use of ghost chilis.

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A: a cow.

This handy website can tell you where your milk comes from:

Where is my milk from?

Via Boing Boing.

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The science behind roommate conflicts

Extra-terresoteriology

Apparently our peeps were discussing life in the universe last month.

This article seemed to be attempting to try dredge up any conflicts between Catholic doctrine vs. life on other planets controversial.

But the conference itself was apparently more dedicated to the discussion of astrobiological science rather than it's intersection with theology per se.

The Benefits & Dangers of a Soy-heavy Diet

Given the edamame currently in our freezer I thought you might find this Boing Boing article of interest.

You should probably read the article for details but, long story short: The less processed the soybeans, the better they are for you.

Relationship discussion from the RPG crowd

Looks like someone's followed up a little on the Love Widget theme:

Sex Advice from D&D Players

Warning: Parental advisory should probably be issued for some of the entries.

Via Boing Boing.

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Babies - The motion picture

A documentary on, what else, four infants from around the world. Trailer is cute and heartwarming beyond belief!

Via Boing Boing.

Psychology in Predatory Lending

More about how credit card companies do what they do.

Article here.

Via Boing Boing.

Parenting Literature

Readings on Ambivalent Parenting
Thought you might find this of amusement.

If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay - parenting book full of things you don't need to worry about
And this to be of general interest and possibly reassurance.

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Booklife

A guide to writing for a living, and/or a lifestyle.

Given one of your possible intended choices of profession this book might be of interest.