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ScienceOnline Attendees in the Triangle
We always want to prolong the high, don’t we? Luckily for us North Carolinians, there are a bunch of us local to the Triangle area that can hopefully meet throughout the year and keep that SciO high in tact. Two days ago, a few of us met at Fullsteam Brewery in Durham and tacked ourselves [...]
The Business of Science: A ScienceOnline2012 Recap
Many of the attendees at ScienceOnline2012 were academic scientists and/or science journalists and bloggers. They had distinct niches that they were studying or preferred to focus on in their writing. I love it all and often can’t make up my mind what I love more. So it was a little rough to be an industry [...]
Boom Boom Blues
My girl has some serious storm anxiety. Ironic considering her name: Raina. I can easily tell that she’s in a storm trance because her eyes and her face completely change into something that doesn’t even look like her. She starts to pant and pace and shake uncontrollably. She jumps up on me and then runs away [...]
5-Week Syndrome
Within the last few months, I’ve discovered that Raina’s social issues that present as an autism mimic are something called 5-Week Syndrome. I only have one article on it and it’s not online anywhere; a dog trainer friend sent it to me. It describes the lack of social interaction and stimulation that a mother and [...]
Secular Holiday Songs List
I’m always disappointed when I hear a beautiful melody and listen to connect with the lyrics, only to find it’s a religious song masquerading as secular pop or rock. I simply don’t identify with religious songs, no matter what shape they take. So when winter rolls around, and the holidays take over every media outlet [...]
He’s Not Yours, Idiot. Grow Up.
I’ve been in a movie-watching mood for a while and got to see The Romantics a few nights ago. It’s a Big Chill wannabe, and nothing compares to TBC, but I didn’t completely dislike it. It had its good moments, and it teaches a lesson I’m not sure it intended to teach. Laura and Tom [...]
A Letter To Religious Family – The Thinking Atheist
The following is a reprint of a letter on The Thinking Atheist blog. You’ve failed as a parent. That’s what you’re thinking, I’m sure. If only you’d attended church more regularly. If only you’d prayed more and emphatically taught your child the power of prayer. If only you’d have opened the bible more instead of [...]
The Help – The Living Proof
I just had the pleasure of seeing “The Help” starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Allison Janney, and so many other incomparable actresses. It’s set in the civil rights era of the 1960s and features a young writer’s compilation of stories primarily written in the POV of the African American maids of [...]
When Family Visits
Raina loves my dad. She puts her front paws on his lap and nuzzles with him while he sits on the couch and she rubs her butt up against his legs to entice him to scratch it while she wiggles around. But when it came down to it, she wouldn’t leave with him for a [...]
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