January 2012
10 posts
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“A North Korean maritime official was on a boat on the Yellow Sea in the...”
– Barbara Demick. Nothing to Envy, p. 215.
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“‘I can’t talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am...”
– From The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, p. 260.
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“Finally, he said, ‘I could look at this all day, but we should go back to...”
– John Green. The Fault in Our Stars, p. 211.
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“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of...”
– John Green. The Fault in Our Stars, p. 157.
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“Without a knowledge formation in younger years, adults function as more or less...”
– Mark Bauerlein. The Dumbest Generation, p. 202.
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“Writing at a time when divorce was permitted only in cases of adultery, he took...”
– Stephen B. Dobranski. “Milton’s social life.” The Cambridge Companion to Milton, ed. Dennis Danielson, pp. 11-12.
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“[T]his division of basic facts from higher-order thinking runs against common...”
– Mark Bauerlein. The Dumbest Generation.
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“Think of how many things you must do in order not to know the year 1776 or the...”
– Mark Bauerlein. The Dumbest Generation.
December 2011
12 posts
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“The soul you thought you left is not despondent or bereft; it’s only just...”
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Chris Ayer. “Say What You Mean.”
Don’t get me wrong; Chris has a great voice, but he writes the best lyrics.
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“Did you know that the word ‘trauma’ comes from the Greek for...”
– Dr. Jeremiah Naehring. Shutter Island (2010).
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“The sky has made it back to blue. Everything that’s left is telling us the...”
– Train. “Brick By Brick.”
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“You are not responsible for why. You know it in the morning and it’s gone...”
– Chris Ayer. “Hiding Place.”
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“We learn how to kiss watching movies, we learn how to lie, how to fight, we...”
– Dan Savage. Skipping Towards Gomorrah, p. 62.
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“What the moaners and groaners at the Republican National Convention, Fox News,...”
– Dan Savage. Skipping Towards Gomorrah, p. 12.
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“Like a person in limbo, I’m a man in progress. I’m another guy...”
– Chris Ayer, “Confidant.”
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“Ironically, the same conservatives who today argue that children raised by...”
– Dan Savage. The Commitment, p. 34.
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“My mom had sent four bibs. Two were a boxed set of matching “I Love...”
– Dan Savage. The Kid, p. 185.
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“The limited research that exists shows that kids with gay and lesbian parents...”
– Dan Savage. The Kid, pp. 58-59.
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“For same-sex couples, taking a lover’s hand is almost never an...”
– Dan Savage. The Kid, p. 36.
November 2011
9 posts
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“This was a monumental moment for me, because I was just told by a lot of very...”
– Pat Monahan of Train. Midnight Moon.
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Jon McLoone, "Do Computers Dumb Down Math... →
Via Wolfram Blog:
“The reason why that typical question is so dumbed down is that, without computers, it quickly becomes too hard to solve by hand. In an educational system geared to neat little hand-solvable problems, the only solution is to look at a toy version of the problem.
“One key conceptual problem shown here is that, in education, assumptions are usually instructions....
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“Bush drew a just line when he proscribed ‘voluntary’ child...”
– E. Benjamin Skinner. A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery. p. 113.
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“You don’t know you’re good. You feel you just maybe made it by...”
– Female white engineering student. Elaine Seymour and Nancy M. Hewitt. Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave The Sciences (1997), p. 105.
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The Award-Winning Reading Challenge!
Today, I’m going to be starting The Insatiable Booksluts’ Award-Winning Reading Challenge!
Essentially, over the next however-many weeks, I’ll be reading eight genre novels that have won the following awards: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award for Novels, the World Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Best Novel Award, the Aurealis award for best horror novel, the Crime Writers’...
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October 2011
11 posts
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“Part of the ‘hardness’ of S.M.E. majors, therefore, includes the...”
– Elaine Seymour and Nancy M. Hewitt. Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave The Sciences (1997), p. 105.
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“The most marked difference between the sexes documented in this study lies in...”
– Elaine Seymour and Nancy M. Hewitt. Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave The Sciences (1997), p. 77.
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“A student who leaves the social sciences for physics is treated by family, peers...”
– Elaine Seymour and Nancy M. Hewitt. Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave The Sciences (1997), p. 17.
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“Man even when he is selfish or evil always follows principles, woman never...”
– Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Venus in Furs.
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“Never feel secure with the woman you love, for there are more dangers in...”
– Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Venus in Furs.
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“In the face of the fact that Haiti still lives, after being boycotted by all the...”
– Frederick Douglass, “Lecture on Haiti,” 1893.
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“I will live my own life as it pleases me. I am wiling to do without your...”
– Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Venus in Furs.
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“It is only man’s egoism which wants to keep woman like some buried...”
– Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Venus in Furs.
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“If there are connections everywhere, why do we persist in turning dynamic,...”
– Eric Wolf. Europe and the People Without History. pp. 4-5.
September 2011
25 posts
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“It was the day after the divination that Dieudonné observed that ‘sida is...”
– Paul Farmer. AIDS & Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, p. 106.
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“Amid all the hand-wringing, one question is never asked: could the Miami poll...”
– Ken Jennings. Maphead, p. 50.
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