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has a fresh harvest of midterms to grade.
I see I'm not the only one getting integrated into the hive - Christopher Harris
I love the hive :) - Kris-Stella from email
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Badger Badger Badger.com! The Original Dancing Badgers! - http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
Badger!!!!!! Aaaaaargh this feels like a lifetime ago... university would not have been the same without the never-ending badger badger badger mushroom mushrooms! - Kris-Stella
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discovered the new Moby album - brilliant for calming nerves and preparing for my presentation tmrw.
what's it on? - Christopher Harris
it is a work-in-progress presentation, so quite preliminary. i am trying to figure out whether political knowledge (or the lack of it) impacts election outcomes in newly democratised countries. i use survey data from eastern europe to run some simulations of elections outcomes if people on the whole had more factual information about politics. results tbc, because my methods need quite a bit of polishing. - Kris-Stella from email
laura
what's it w ppl trying to steal my smurf hat?
i have no idea what this is about, but it is still the best tweet i've seen in ages - Kris-Stella
I would like to see a picture of that much-coveted hat. - The Neurocritic
seconded... - Noah Gray
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Grandmother of World's 23rd Best Economist Posthumously Offended by Sonia Sotomayor's Spending Habits; Will Obama Withdraw Nomination? - http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009...
Thanks Emily! - Kris-Stella
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Some of My Best Friends are Members of the American Bankers Association - http://www.themonkeycage.org/2009...
Thanks, Emily - Kris-Stella
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Christopher Harris
growing increasingly fond of the 'define:' function in google. any other commands I should know about?
In case you don't already do this: in Firefox, you can "left-click" and choose "add keyword to search". this gives your address bar the ability to search any search engine directly without going to the main page. for example, i can type in "wiki monkey" to go straight to the wikipedia search results for monkey or "yt monkey" to go straight to the youtube search results for monkey. In Safari, Safaristand should give you the same ability. - Kris-Stella
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Stephen Colbert Incorporated - http://questionablecontent.net/view...
This explains so much! - Kris-Stella
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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that people who have the most live the longest.
happy birthday! - laura
Ah - but, is that significant ? - Nils Reinton
Well, I can't guarantee significance but I do think that if the dataset is everyone who ever lived then the standard errors should be very, very small :) - Kris-Stella
Another possibility is that the significance of all human life is small, and the standard error huge, - but that's probably not valid statistics. The significance of your birthday (and your tweet) on the other hand is valid in every possible way. Philosopher in spe....... - Nils Reinton
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SOCIAL CLASS AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS - http://contexts.org/socimag...
great photo - Kris-Stella
laura
grad skool rulz « orgtheory.net - http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/grad-sk...
These are great - Kris-Stella
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Wanted: Someone to sort out Obama's gift-giving - http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment...
I can't help but imagine what this would have looked like on "West Wing". Think CJ's face as she hears this on TV and turns to look around the room to find the culprit. - Kris-Stella
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laura
danced like everyone was watching; nicked a black sideboard and some daffodils on the way home. successful night i'd say.
daffodils! we still have remnants of snow on the ground, nothing green anywhere! - Kris-Stella
welcome to the east coast! on long island things didn't turn green until april. but to make up for that, autumn/fall tends to be very beautiful. - laura
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i can has strongbow and wine
i can has coffee and cupcake - Kris-Stella
laura
could it be? my first gray hair..? at 25...?
that's about when I started getting mine :) - Allyson Lister
Aging sucks :-( - Benjamin Tseng
indeed. tho it's all relative again once you get asked for ID in a corner shop - laura
and by once i mean repeatedly... (now at least i can say: look dude, i had my first gray hair the other day!) - laura
Mine started a little later. But that might be because they were all busy falling out for that decade. - Chris Cotsapas
I got my first one at 16. They've made regular apearances since... - Kris-Stella
gray hair number 2.. i'll stop counting at 10. - laura
this is why i don't have hair :) - Christopher Harris
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YouTube - The "Obama Abortion Ad"; The Super Bowl Ad Rejected By NBC - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - The "Obama Abortion Ad"; The Super Bowl Ad Rejected By NBC
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Wow. I think I just rediscovered that little bit of me that appreciates bluntness and even vitriol. - Kris-Stella
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Perfect illustration of how little winter the UK gets (and why I'm so happy with the Boston winter): it snows in Britain, and the London Times liveblogs it! - Kris-Stella
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running into larry summers - http://marbury.typepad.com/marbury...
met any famous people yet? - Christopher Harris
famous is a relative term =P - Kris-Stella
geek-famous - Christopher Harris
now that I think about it, i haven't actually. will try harder this term ;) - Kris-Stella
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this is how i learned, too! - Kris-Stella
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Slavery and Mistrust in Africa - http://www.themonkeycage.org/2009...
with implications for the 'political culture' debate - Kris-Stella
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Islands regering avgår - http://www.dn.se/DNet...
Iceland's government.... what's the word you use when governments get fired? - Christopher Harris
"resigns"? - Kris-Stella
aah, ok: Iceland's government "resigns" - Christopher Harris
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finished reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being. meh.
meh? really? - Kris-Stella
I loved it. - Karoli
it was too passive, it shows the lightness beautifully but didn't bite back - Christopher Harris
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Poll Finds Faith in Obama, Mixed With Patience - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
The best possible combination for an incoming President - Kris-Stella from Bookmarklet
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01/16/09 PHD comic: 'Tough economic times' - http://www.phdcomics.com/comics...
you couldn't be more spot on than this - Kris-Stella
laura
On Procrastination (sometimes genius doodles) - http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009...
I can has new ethics section on my website instead of working in the lab? yes I can has - Christopher Harris
that's the spirit! :) - laura
excellent essay through the link. excellent. :D - Kris-Stella
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Is this illiteracy or a clever trick to escape incitement of hatred charges? - Kris-Stella
harsh - laura
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Strike on Gaza school 'kills 40' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
The insanity of humanity - Kris-Stella from Bookmarklet
You mean insanity of the Israeli government..? - Christopher Harris
today's episode of Democracy Now talks a lot of sense re Gaza: http://www.democracynow.org/2009... - Christopher Harris
I mean humanity - it happens to be the Israeli government in this instance, but Hamas are not exactly an image of sanity either. See for example the piece I shared yesterday, 'should Israel talk to Hamas?' - Kris-Stella
I read it, it suggested that the Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza should have been enough to stop Hamas' rocket fire. It didn't even address the desperate (some would say rocket causing) situation created by the Israeli blockade of Gaza - Christopher Harris
Do you mean that you believe the hypothetical - Israel lays down weapons, retreats from Gaza and the West Bank, opens borders, and therefore Hamas et al recognize its right to exist and stop attacks - is true? I find it difficult to believe. - Kris-Stella
If Obama sat down with all sides and carved out a fair two-state solution (including half of Jerusalem for Palestine and massive financial and logistic aid from Israel and the US towards rebuilding Palestinian infrastructure) then yes, I think a lasting peace would have been possible. This is before the attack on Gaza, so maybe we'll never know. What do you think this attack can accomplish? - Christopher Harris
I have not said I think it can accomplish anything. In fact, you'll find I refer to it as insanity just above. I don't have a preferred side in this conflict, and usually I refrain from commenting at all - should have known better than to share even what I thought were pretty uncontroversial links/comments. - Kris-Stella
sorry, didn't mean to force you to take sides - Christopher Harris
thanks =) - Kris-Stella
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