Class starts tomorrow and I still have only a very vague idea of which classes I will be registered in. Three out of four classes I want are either full or closed to undergrads, which means I'll be attending seven or eight different classes in the next two days and kissing tons of professors' asses. Luckily I bought a brand new box of dental dams ( Read more... )

This year, psychologists at Northwestern did a study that found that break-ups are "just less bad than you thought". The ever more present press releases of this kind make me think that academics in fields like psychology and cognitive science are either seventeen years old or have hit some kind of wall. My brief forays into cognitive science ( Read more... )

Why was I supposed to like the Iliad? I've been thinking about the book and I'm afraid there's something I missed, because I really just found it tedious.