My Own Thoughts

A Statue of Liberty made out of 18,000 men. A grammar lesson on YouTube which is incorrect. None can stand for “not any” as well as for “not one.” Wedding Photos We’ll Remember, some of which you may wish you could forget. Some are funny and some… are weird because they’re in the package. This [...]

See this post from Hummer Limos in Miami… Find out that the math question is wrong because Tracy is a woman. Learn that radioactive ooze allows you to investigate phenotypes. And, most ingeniously, see how chemistry helps uncover Batman’s private identity.

R and I were discussing whether good schools create high IQs or high IQs create good schools. Or some such. I was directed to a review of a book, which clearly indicates that high IQs come first. They only stay high if the schools support them. Chinese-American entrants to Berkeley in 1966 had an IQ [...]

so I was especially interested in the Common Room’s historical posting of 1910 doctor letters. (For myself I’m a big history fan.) Part I is here. It talks about the rich guy whose wife flaunts her Worth gowns (and yes, I know what those are. I read Georgette Heyer.) and won’t pay his doctor whose [...]

I hit a curb in a parking lot yesterday. I managed to scrape one knee and elbow, wrench my back on that side, twist my other ankle, and hurt the knee on that side. Nothing is broken. And my computer didn’t break either. But oh man do I hurt. And I clearly to work on [...]