Welcome to my LiveJournal, everyone, and thank you for dropping in ( Read more... )

(In a violation of standard protocol, I am making this public because the topic is very important.)

This is a very important post that everyone should read. I don't know the context in which it came up, but the entire post is worth reading, as are all the links ( Read more... )

Why did the programmer confuse Christmas with Halloween? Because OCT 31 = DEC 25

I have to admit ( Read more... )

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." -- Thomas A. Edison

Is it really too much to ask for people to be open, honest, and sincere?

If I throw in realistic, would that change anyone's answer?

I spent most of my morning commute chatting with a woman from my shul who was bringing her utterly ADORABLE six-week-old daughter to Boston Common. Hebrew conversation interspersed with cooing. *melts*

(For those not getting the neon sign reference, that was a comment by terriqat that I have one such sign above my head that says how much I want to be a

Why is it that the people who are in a position to help are almost never in a position to volunteer it. It shows an interesting law of the universe: if you want to change things, you must take the first step yourself...

Once again, I find a neuroscience article messed up by the news.

Article

"In The Journal of Neuroscience, experts report that the brain might house more memories than people realize, but that retrieving those memories can be tricky."

NO!

The article in J. Neurosci. says: "In summary, we found that [the part of the brain in question] can ( Read more... )

It happens that I was thinking about this recently...

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." -- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)