I think that I have noticed that different people treat the demonstrative "this" differently in regards to the days of a given week - or else I am the only oddball out there. So to test this idea...,

( ...a poll )

Poll Opinions of Personal PropertyI recall a teen church convention that I attended as a youth in which we were assigned into "breakfast clubs". During these discussion groups, we had a list of questions that were meant to get us thinking about things related to the speeches to be heard later in the day ( Read more... )

While waiting for my partner at the gym a few weeks ago, I was perusing bulletin board postings, which usually are pulled from health and/or exercise magazines ( Read more... )

I've been wanting to write about the definition of femininity for a long time now, but it's not an easy thing at all to define.

I have been leaning more and more towards a definition that is based on association/relationship with other people as opposed to anything actually inherent in women.[1] (This also seems to be the kind of definition held ( Read more... )

...At the Veritas forum[1], the speaker also stated the following: "A substance retains its identity even when it loses its properties ( Read more... )

( a poll with pictures )

Poll Incest or OK?( Read more... )

Last night, I began co-teaching a course on chemistry for science teachers. The other teacher showed a video about the American science education system and problems with it. Our students were also given a test on common chemistry misconceptions. I was amazed at how poorly both the ones interviewed in the video -- Harvard graduates, even -- and ( Read more... )

At the last GCF meeting, daschwartz asked a fun question about the moral qualities that different cultures attribute to different animals. I thought it might make a good poll, but I'm not sure I have enough readers from non-Western cultures to get a good sense of any trends. Even so....

( Animal Moral Stereotypes )

The other chemistry building has a foosball table in their basement. The other day, while waiting to use their (much more well shimmed) NMR, I was looking over the table ( Read more... )