This excellent blog post by Stacey Patton, an Enterprise Reporter for The Chronicle for Higher Education, touches on many socially and emotionally weighted subjects:  

• hatred against people using welfare (conveniently ignoring the fact that the subject of the article had already paid into the system as a taxpayer)
• the stress of being without full- ( Read more... )

Signal boosting -- I have no further information (although I'd like to read the book when it's ready).

Also of possible interest: calls for academic papers on the science fiction TV shows Stargate   , Smallville, The Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, and Farscape; and essays about urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels. 
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Yes, you've probably heard this already, and social media circles were all a-Twitter yesterday...but it's fascinating news.Former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to go into space in 1992, will lead a space research foundation devoted to supporting research in human interstellar travel. Ms. Jemison's proposal was ( Read more... )

Member of extended family to me, at yesterday's New Year's Day party:

"Have you gained some weight?  You're looking really good!"

...Happy New Year, folks! Stay beautiful inside & out.

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200 years on, why Jane Austen's lovers find new reasons for their passion | Books | The Observer

"Why should a focus on female dilemmas be any less universal than an
obsession with male problems? As an intelligence officer at the Western
Front, Reginald Farrer recorded in 1917: "Talk of her 'limitations' is
vain, it must never be thought that ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting article by Maia Szalavitz, published on the Time website. "An orgasm has now been imaged in 3D video in the brain as it happens."


"...and then the brain goes quiet."

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November: lots of books, longer work hours (no complaints, I am glad to have 'em), writing, increased tea drinking, insomnia, book reading & reviewing, damp commutes on public transit.  Surprised but pleased to win award for making traditional Southern-style lemon "chess" pie for potluck at one of my workplaces.  Plan to use part of the ( Read more... )