January 2011
7 posts
My Life as a Clown: Parenting Meltdown →
mylifeasaclown:
This morning while I was supposed to be watching him but instead was doing some work from home Giovanni managed to use his single uber-toof to tear off a chunk of his nursery rhyme book. No one really noticed until the F-bomb was trying to feed him and he starting acting really funny. She freaked…
Yesterday at work I made a dumb mistake that almost killed two gerbils. ...
“I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than...”
– Albert Einstein (via illuminatedbeing)
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via illuminatedbeing)
The New Yorker: Jonah Lehrer: The Truth Wears Off →
“A “significant” result is defined as any data point that would be produced by chance less than five per cent of the time. This ubiquitous test was invented in 1922 by the English mathematician Ronald Fisher, who picked five per cent as the boundary line, somewhat arbitrarily, because it made pencil and slide-rule calculations easier.
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The decline effect is troubling because it...
Why do flight attendants say “do”? ”We do hope you have a safe trip,” ”we do appreciate you flying with us today,” - the forced emphasis makes me suspicious about their sincerity.