I got new glasses for my eyeballs! I may have had the exact pair in first grade, which only makes me like them more. They make me want to read babysitters club, like a thick …
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eyes: a lesson in eyes
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PBA?
Today, on My Favorite Disease (Oh, do you NOT have a favorite disease?) I saw an informercial this AM for treatment for a disease called PBA: PseudoBulbar Affect, or: bouts of uncontrollable laughter / crying at inappropriate …
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‘on hard days like these’
Basically unbeknownst to us, until a crash makes headlines, there are hundreds of folks in the Mojave desert who have dedicated their lives to figuring out how we might, in the future, live ours in …
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I am not a Scientist.
And so, I cannot fully explain where I went today, The Blue Lagoon, but pretty much basically, it’s a body of water created by warm volcano run-off water? In which you float and drink beer …
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Curiosity
I love this little (car-sized) Mars explorer, and how much it’s being personified as some kind of hyper intelligent and delicate toddler. Moving at an adorable 1/10th of a mile per hour, it’s going to …
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Our Partially Cyborg Selves
I was just reading about how as humans, we are becoming more and more cyborg-like, as we use our phones for external memory (as GPS, for storing numbers, dates, etc, and the fact that we …
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Anthropomorphism, for Airplanes
Another thing worth mentioning: as the technology behind machines becomes more and more like the human brain, it is possible that said machines will develop human emotions. I read this somewhere but can’t recall (because …
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THE FUTURE
God bless my delightfully nerdy boyfriend. With his help, I’ve been researching Robotics, 3D animation, and the projected future relationships between humans and technology, trying to form an actual good idea for a Sloan proposal. …
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A Night at the Museum
Liz and I went to the Natural History Museum hoping to learn about the earth; be generally erudite. But instead, we were discouraged to find that we had forgotten everything we learned in second grade. …
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WHOA YOU GUYS
THERE I WAS, innocently drinking my Dasani, when a friend informed me that there was salt in my water. Whaaaa??? I enquired, predictably. Sure enough, friend directed me to the back of the bottle, where …