Friday 07/03/2009

• Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Awesome Messiness: Incredible Sloppy Artwork

  

  (work via ARTST.com )

  It takes a special kind of person to actively pursue a messy career, be they a port-o-potty cleaner or a technician on an oil rig. Messy artists, you know, ones who cherish a sloppy line ... more

• Karen Mardahl '79: The joy of sharing ideas

  I dont understand what Holger Bech Nielsen , the theoretical physicist, talks about. However, I gladly listened to him talk many years ago. Twice.

  Why? I am not a physicist. I have not attended any physics classes at school. ... more

• EcBlogue: A Classics Blogging: Clara

  
  

  The new acropolis museum opened in Athens while I was reading Barry Unsworths Land of Marvels . (Robs fuller review of this novel can be found here .)

  Set in 1914 on the eve of the great war, the ... more

• Happy Bodies: Becky

  
  

  Because the Happy Bodies bloggers are all women, and we like to write from experience, most of our content has been focused on female bodies, leaving out half of the story. In order to remedy this, coming soon were ... more

• David Schraub: Muslims Against Anti-Semitism

  Bob from Brockley points to an interesting initiative from Faith Matters : Muslims Against Anti-Semitism .

  We are a not for profit organisation that is made up of British Muslims who believe that Anti-Semitism in all of its guises ... more

• David Schraub: Being Gay is Just Too Natural

  David Klinghoffer eagerly reprints an argument by Israeli biblical scholar Joshua Berman claiming that the main victims of allowing gay marriage are ... women! Even lesbian women, I wonder?* In any event, the thrust of the argument is of ... more

• David Schraub: Palin Resigns

  I give my full breakdown and a roundup at The Moderate Voice . Short story -- assuming this was meant as a step towards running in 2012 (and I think it was), it was a grave, grave miscalculation.

  

• David Schraub: Crist Tries to Diversify Courts

  I didn't know that Florida Governor Charlie Crist (R) had tried to reject a slate of candidates for a state judicial seat because the list was all-White. Unfortunately, the Florida Supreme Court said Governor Crist did not have the discretion ... more

• Ken Wedding's Reading Blog: Sweden to Zambia

  On the way to Sidetrack (the little refuge in the woods), I stopped at the new library in Amery. What a great new facility. No more are the window ledges full of books. No longer are there carts full of ... more

• Ken Wedding's Reading Blog: Neurology text (almost)

  While reading another of Jonathan Kellerman's books (about which I'll write soon), I was taken with the opening section. It was the fictionalized, and probably idealized narrative of a course of therapy for a fictionalized, and probably idealized patient.
  
  I ... more

• Dan Schofer '00

  7-3-2009
  Mud Rd + Irish + Mt. Vernon + Town . 45 minutes. 6 miles.
  Relaxed and easy run. Felt fine.

  

• Elizabeth Tamny '88: oh yeah, baby

  I think I've identified a really goofy mix of dog I might want to get. It's the result of about as ridiculous, custom-made, 21st-century, cafeteria-style cute-dog mixing as it could be, but whatever. The BICHON-POO! Or the Poochon. I ... more

• Amy Reynaldo '88: Friday, 7/3

  NYT 6:06
  BEQ 3:58
  LAT 3:38
  CS 8:53 (J―paper)
  WSJ 10:05
  
  Kevin Der's New York Times crossword
  
  This is my favorite of Kevin's puzzles to date. Look at this exquisite creature—super-duper Scrabbly, terrific fill, and fun clues. There's also a ... more

• Happy Bodies: brittalinn

  
  

  After a week of hauling, cleaning, goodbye-ing and graduating, we needed to escape Minnesota. So, we got in a shiny red Suburu and drove, headed for the vast emptiness of the west. Sitting for all those hours felt good ... more

• Happy Bodies: Becky

  
  

  The Delhi court ruled today to decriminalize homosexuality in New Delhi. They said that treated consensual gay sex as a crime is violation of human rights prescribed in Indias constitution. Although this will only apply in New Delhi, Indias ... more

Thursday 07/02/2009

• Dan Schofer '00

  7-2-2009
  Lisbon. 29 minutes. 4 miles.
  Easy shakeout run with Marie alongside on the bike.

  

• Doug LeMoine '94: Handmade

  

  This photo is from an excellent 70s photo book called Handmade Houses . I bought it after I read this inspiring little piece on Inhabitat , and it has got me thinking about getting back to basics. In this ... more

• Carleton News: Neil Lutsky Chairs Psychology Symposium; Presents Paper

  Neil Lutsky, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Psychology, chaired a symposium and gave a paper entitled "How Positive Should We Be Teaching the Science of Positive Psychology?" at the First World Congress on Positive Psychology in June in Philadelphia.

• Carleton News: Devashree Gupta Receives 2009 Samuel H. Beer Prize for Best Dissertation on British Politics

  Devashree Gupta, assistant professor of political science, was awarded the 2009 Samuel H. Beer Prize for the Best Dissertation on British Politics, awarded by the British Politics Group of the American Political Science Association.

• David Schraub: Junior and Senior

  Jon Chait calls out Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) for condescending Al Franken:

  [A]s I've written , and which Norm Ornstein attested on the Diane Rehm show yesterday, Franken is a policy wonk. Anybody who's spoken with him or read his ... more