May 2010
"undergraduates who like to stay on top of things,...
They Get to Me: an article by Jessica Love | The American Scholar http://www.theamericanscholar.org/they-get-to-me/ the sort of undergraduates who like to stay on top of things, who won’t try to fit all seven research hours in on the last possible day, who aren’t likely to rearrange the keyboard to spell [F][U][C][K] [ ] [T][H][I][S] or to accidentally “lock” themselves in the testing rooms by...
The ethics of placebo use, and conceptualizing...
The magic cure - The Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/05/09/the_magic_cure/?page=full Posted via email from T H I N K | Comment »
Sarah Silverman: Animal Magnetism
Animal Magnetism http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Animal+Magnetism&expire=&urlID=424542983&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffeatures%2F65351%2F&partnerID=73272 Sarah Silverman on her TED talk: “The bit was tied into the theme of the conference, which was ‘What the World Needs Now.’ So I say I’d like to adopt a...
Librarians Do Gaga
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Travis Powell to Stuart Franklin Pratt, 1862,...
“I came to do everything I was bid, I drowned my scruples in my washbowl, clutched my soap manfully, and assuming a businesslike air, made a dab at the first dirty specimen I saw, bent on performing my task vi et armis if necessary. I chanced to light on a withered old Irishman wounded in the head, which caused that portion of his frame to be tastefully laid out like a garden, the bandages...