It’s all about us us us! I know, annoying. But I thought I’d share our official wedding website as well as this happy news (second article listed in Vol. 13, number 3).
Posted by Deana in Academia, Fun, Holiday! Celebrate!, Space, Travel on July 27th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Yes, among many other doings there comes an update to the 20,000 Leagues Under the Covers quilt! (Deana and Glen, there are more photos on my Flickr site.)
The work on this quilt is done in fits and starts, but I think it is really striking when a new stage is finished. Yay! The fishie path [...]
Posted by Karen in Crafts, Literature, Uncategorized on July 21st, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Good article from the New York times about ritual and fashion at a gay wedding between a former seminarian and a former monk, complete with huppah. Good read.
Posted by Deana in Beauty and Fashion, Community & Activism, Culture, Holiday! Celebrate!, Religion on July 18th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
This article from the San Jose Mercury News, Seeing the World from Both Sides, is worth a read:
When a Stanford University neurobiologist made a case this week that discrimination, not genetics, keeps women out of science, his comments carried more weight than usual.
Ben A. Barres spent most of his life — and his career as [...]
Posted by Chris in Academia, Culture, Education, Feminism, Science on July 16th, 2006 | 4 Comments »
I’m sure I’ve mentioned this study before, but I finally found a source I can cite. Back in 1998, the International Center for Technology Assessment released a study called “The Real Price of Gasoline.” It showed that if all the costs of gasoline (including subsidies and externalized costs) were included in the price at the [...]
Posted by Chris in Environment, Government, Iraq, Reference, Uncategorized, World on July 15th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I have no idea what this is, but I went ahead and ordered it. Should be entertaining, I think.
[Editor's note: Deana did fieldwork in Rocamadour, a small town in France known as a pilgrimage destination.]
Posted by Deana in Academia, Architecture, Fun, Literature, Religion, Shopping, Travel, You have got to be kidding on July 14th, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I just read a wonderful opinion piece in the LA Times called Sex is essential, kids aren’t:
When it comes to human behavior, there are actually very few genetic dictates. Our hearts insist on beating, our lungs breathing, our kidneys filtering and so forth, but these internal-organ functions are hardly “behavior” in a meaningful sense. As [...]
Posted by Chris in Culture, Environment, Feminism, Science, Sexuality on July 8th, 2006 | No Comments »
I know, I know, but this video, Solo: The Movie, is extremely entertaining. It’s a preview for the Star Wars trilogy if it took place in contemporary Los Angeles. With an all-human cast. It’s funny.
Posted by Deana in Film, Fun, Oddly Enough, Science fiction on July 7th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Just when you were beginning to think that it would never do anyone any good, voting with your dollar makes a difference. An effort by textile companies and the government of Lesotho has brought the textile industry back from near disaster to near fighting strength again, in large part thanks to the “government… working [...]
Posted by Karen in Business, Community & Activism, Culture, Shopping on July 4th, 2006 | No Comments »
