http://www.hulu.com/watch/366103/charlie-rose-brain-series-2-depression
if you don't go through the whole thing - just listen to the initial bit by the author - andrew solomon. he is superbly eloquent .... and accurate.
A sciolism it may be, but it's not a rant, or a rave or a musing or anything stupid like that.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/366103/charlie-rose-brain-series-2-depression
if you don't go through the whole thing - just listen to the initial bit by the author - andrew solomon. he is superbly eloquent .... and accurate.
A fine is a tax for doing wrong.
A tax is a fine for doing well.
Archeologist: someone whose career lies in ruins.
An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have:
The older she gets, the more interested he becomes in her.
There are two kinds of people who don't say much:
those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.
They say that alcohol kills slowly.
So what? Who's in a hurry ?
Alcohol and calculus don't mix.
Never drink and derive
One nice thing about egotists:
They don't talk about other people.
There was a man who said,
"I never knew what happiness was until I got married...
and then it was too late
Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves.
After marriage, the 'Y' becomes silent.
fun math videos..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ
From The New York Times:
Learning From the Spurned and Tipsy Fruit Fly
A new study finds that young male fruit flies that have been rejected
by females apparently self-medicate just like humans do.
Nani Palkhiwala wrote on 16 January 1984.
“The picture that emerges is that of a great country in a state of moral decay. The immediate future seems to belong to the doomsayers rather than to cheer mongers. We suffer from a fatty degeneration of conscience, and the malady seems to be not only persistent but prone to aggravation. The life style of too many politicians and businessmen bears eloquent testimony to the truth of dictum that the single minded pursuit of money impoverishes the mind, shrivels the imagination and desiccates the heart. The tricolour fluttering all over the country is black, red and scarlet – black money, red tape and scarlet corruption.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/opinion/i-had-asperger-syndrome-briefly.html?src=me&ref=general
(Yet) Another editorial decrying the excesses (or insufficiencies) of the peer review system:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/9/84
The main thesis of this article is that :
the success of a postdoctoral Fellow in finding a good academic position is perceived to depend, and to a large extent probably does depend, on his or her having published a paper in one of the three highest-profile general biology journals; but getting a paper into one of those journals can be extraordinarily difficult because - it is widely felt - referees seem to see it as their responsibility to insist on time-consuming additions and revisions, and editors are unable or unwilling to judge for themselves the justice of the referees' advice.
http://www.caravanmagazine.in/PrintThisStory.aspx?StoryId=1103
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/At-Grandpa-Twain-s-knee-7055