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Recently I made delicious yogurt. This was a surprisingly simple process, and so I share it with all of you, in case you enjoy yogurt and wish to save monies by making your own.
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Cross-posted to PNN for anyone who's on there:

This is one of the first times I have been truly grateful for living in New York City; I just got back from seeing the limited-release premiere of Food, Inc. It is one of the most frightening, uplifting, important movies I have seen. If you liked "This Film is Not Yet Rated" or "An Inconvenient Truth," ( Read more... )

So, is there anyone who:
1) is going to be in the NYC area next Friday (6/12), and
2) wants to go see "Food, Inc." with me?

It's going to be at Film Forum for just that day. The trailer below is a bit dramatic, but the reviews at the director's site have me pretty interested.

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Any takers?

Classes, that is. TAing is done for the semester too (thankyouthankyouthankyou). There will be a more detailed update on the whole first-year-PhD experience as soon as I finish finals next week. I'll be here over the summer doing research (mostly literature search) on energy optimization in microprocessors via job scheduling (aka "Processors are ( Read more... )

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Screw buying tampons; my boyfriend makes customer service calls for me.

So, early yesterday evening I Stumbled upon this delightful compilation of "Twilight" mockery and critique (man but I have trained my stumble button well). For those blessedly sadly ignorant of the "Twilight" craze, it's a pretty fun introdruction; for those already initiated, it might have a couple you haven't seen before.

Of course, in my perusal ( Read more... )

For anyone who was particularly interested in the Times' "What Women Want" article, there's an ongoing discussion at the XX factor on Slate.com

I really enjoyed this NY TImes article: What do Women Want?

It's an overview of the current research being done on female sexuality (and in particular, of course, how it differs from male). I wouldn't say I agree with everything in there, as they make some pretty broad gender-based hypotheses, but the work being done is quite interesting.