When my Dad was a kid, farms near his home would dye thier chicks pink and blue and then give them away/sell them as pets to local kids. So my Dad had two chickens as pets.
This must have been a popular research project to work on even though the result is something most of us knew already -
chocolate is better than kissingBut did they examine the effect of chocolatey kisses?
I saw this bit about Creative Writing classes in the NYTimes article on the Virginia Tech shootings, and I have to say it rang some bells:
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Carolyn Rude, the chair of the English Department, said that she had spoken to a professor who taught Mr. Cho and was told that the general impression of him was that he was “troubled.”
“There were signs that he was troubled,” she said. “And the English Department at one point did intervene.”
She said that it related to something he wrote in a creative writing class but did not give details about what was written or what kind of intervention was taken, only that it was some time ago, before she was made chair of the department.
“Sometimes some creative writing class students will say something that unnerves us,” she said. “I know that there was some intervention and I don’t know the particulars.”
She said she had not seen what he wrote and said that she could not make public such personal information about a student.
Without going into the specifics of this case, she said that often when there is an intervention the incident is reported to either the counseling center or the dean of students.
“We are not psychologists,” she said. |
Some of my ex-classmates wrote stuff that was a little scary too...
particle_person, you can
read his somewhat disturbing plays that he wrote.
Inert, moldy, and a sensationCheese that has it's own myspace? A celebrity? This article made me giggle.
All the same, if every person who writes a nasty story or play is a sicko about to explode, then we'd have to lock up Stephen King and Chuck Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis. (Mind you, if we locked up the last two, I wouldn't be crying.)
With apologies to They Might Be Giants:
I know politics bore you
But I can't be here
Sitting with you
On your racist couch.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/04/...=rss_topstoriesThat's hilarious and awful, Eris. Given it was a computer translation error by people with no feel for the nuances of English or the implications of the word, I think the woman is being a little silly. She could just cut the tag off.
This is basically a serious story but
streetfighter monks! Hee!
How does the Metro always get the most awesome stories?
Irish campaigner against inland Shell pipeline wins Goldman environmental prize.
This is the world's most prestigious environmental award, and it is awarded annually to six people. This year's awards have not yet been officially announced. Willie Corduff is one of the "Rossport Five" who opposed a gas pipeline being built through their land in an isolated rural community and were jailed for three months.
Jeezus, the FDA might redefine chocolate to not require cocoa butter! GRRRR. Please do not be altering my chocolate.
LA Times story about the chocolate proposalThere are only 3 days left for public comment to the FDA. PLEASE, if you like good chocolate,
drop the FDA a note on their website not to do this. It's just a simple web form, but at least they can't claim (as they have in the past) that nobody commented during the public comment period.