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Stalkers, Trolls..............Window lickers?

Ok, feel free to laugh at me if you like, but I really do not know and feel the need to ask. I know what a stalker is and I know what a troll is....But what, exactly, is a window licker?

model your life based on Shawshank redemption.

"INSTITUTIONALISED" is the key word. Fear can hold you a prisoner, hope can set you free

On Human Sacrifice and Political Correctness

This text is somewhat related to one of my older essays, about the history of cacao and chocolate. When I was younger, I was once told that regularly practiced cannibalism didn't exist in any society...

Duly Noted: A Conflict Is Upon Us

George Handlery on the week that was. There is a hook at the end of the safety rope. The clash of religions: is it about culture? How to make equalitarian projects fail? Disarmament: is there a plan...

Duly Noted: Grasping into the Cookie-Jar

George Handlery on the week that was. How to negotiate with pariahs? What makes Obama “formidable”? Good candidate, good President? Freedom and equality. Redistribution and oppression. The chance of...

Duly Noted: Brussels Ready to Strangle Switzerland

George Handlery on the week that was. Chimp rights. How blind is color blind? Obama Wright or wrong? The rule of law and criminal rights. The science of bogus facts. Direct democracy and bureaucratic...

Contrasting Views on the Gender Disparity in Science

Daniel Drezner links to two articles with alternative interpretations to the gender gap in science. Both are looking at a female exodus from hard sciences, but explain it in different ways. First,...

Hypothalamic hamartoma

Fascinating case report from the NY Times:The source of her suffering is a hypothalamic hamartoma, or H.H., a tumor on the hypothalamus that strikes only a few thousand people in the world. And while...

Find & Replace Limiting Beliefs, Part 1: Search Techniques

Are you guilty of failing at your goals time and time again, only to ask “what’s wrong with the world?” and keep on trying to succeed with the same strategies and tactics? It may...

Rodriguez: “Obama’s Brilliant Bad Speech”

Gregory Rodriguez, the almost always interesting syndicated columnist, gets it exactly right in today’s Los Angeles Times: His rhetoric entangled him in race in exactly the wrong way.In some ways,...

Can't Sleep -- Building Will Eat Me

Geoff Manaugh explores the intersection between architecture and debilitating fear: I'm also curious if these sorts of paranoias are ever directed at landscapes and the built environment. In...

Immigrants Don't End Up in Prison

From a Public Policy Institute of California comes a study finding that immigrants, legal and illegal, in California are not more likely to show up in prison than native-born Americans. Some...