The world, the Universe, is so much stranger and more wonderful than people generally think. If there is only one thing I ever want to teach my children, it's this idea. Open your mind, don't let common thinking rule the way you see your future.

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Alice Dreger works with people at the edge of anatomy, such as conjoined twins and intersexed people ( Read more... )

Was thinking tonite about my life and why I couldn't just win the lotto. Why can't it be easy. Why can't I have what I want, do what I like, go where I choose. I thought about all the times I've wondered that and all the things that happened each time since. Things I never would have experienced, people I never would have known, lessons learned ( Read more... )

2 hours of Archery and then 3 hours of Yardwork (notice the capitals) on Saturday. Leaning over tables painting tapestries with the girls and then Dancing in the Park on Sunday. I'm a big ol' mass of pain, but I feel like I got something accomplished ( Read more... )

Sometimes there is a small inner voice that tells you to do something. The something doesn't always make sense and many people ignore that voice, or train themselves not to hear it because it is inconvenient or doesn't have any bearing on what they understand. I try to listen and, most of the time, try to do what it tell me ( Read more... )

I'd like to say something profound, but Joss beat me to it.

"I have never had any faith in humanity. But I will give us props on this: if we can evolve, invent and theorize our way into the technologically magical, culturally diverse and artistically magnificent race we are and still get people to buy the idiotic idea that half of us are inferior ( Read more... )