I just thought I would let people know that tomorrow I will be giving a short (15 min) talk on Creativity and Madness in my colleague's Abnormal Psychology class. She is covering mood disorders in the...make that happen), so there was some talk about celebrating at her house tomorrow night after the kids are finished trick or treating (which, given their ages, should be in about 1/2 hour or so)
...this made me smile: http://community.livejournal.com/academics_anon/1575118.html?thread=33627598#t33627598 Peer-reviewed blogging? Well that's an idea straight from Satan's bottom. And now here's a photograph of a car on fire in Crawley: Comments unnecessary. As ever. ;o)
For those in London who may be interested, there will be a presentation and discussion of the findings of the SIPRI Yearbook 2008 at the LSE on Tuesday at 6.45, entitled Trends in War, Peace and Arms... The event is free and open to all, and requires no ticket. Entry first come first served. Will probably have meetings in London during the day, so not really available for meeting up, I'm afraid
from the huffington post via Academics Anonymous - a post on why academics should blog. I think I would add to the list with the notion that it makes academics human as the backstories of research and friends mix with the thoughts, theories, resources and specific topics covered in a given post.
Interesting to U2 fans and social scientists alike: An article that I was a research subject for back during the last U2 tour (I took a survey) has finally been published. Queuing among U2 fans: Reactions...was proximal (having waited in the queue for awhile) or distal (being a committed fan). We discuss research on social norm violations. Here's a PDF of the entire article if anyone's interested
Прочитав главу номер 17 умной книжки по нейробиологии я поняла откуда взялось выражение "извилин не хватает". Извилистая поверхность нашего мозга больше по площади чем более плоская и поэтому содержит большее количество нейронов. У нас самые извилистые мозги из всех животных за исключением дельфинов. Вот так-то..
For those of you who are really, really, reeeeeeeeally interested in Tolkien, there's a deleted scene from the Two Towers DVD where Eowyn sings a funeral dirge in Old English at Theodred's burial. I...IS THAT, HUH??? I could go on. Tolkien took a lot from Beowulf and the Old Norse Grettir's Saga and was a brilliantly well-versed man all around. Nnnnnnnngggghhhhhh, intertextuality turns me on
Last.fm has just played me a really spectularly silly filk of the German Pippi Longstocking song by a band called Rabenschrey called "Hej, wir sind Heiden" (Hey, we're heathen, and do what we like, and...approved of in libraries, but at least it's lightened my mood while trying to decipher the abominably complex abbreviations in the Glossa Ordinaria, and cursing my anything but leet Latin skills..
Вечером четверга возле библиотеки в студгородке почти пусто. Несколько зазевавшихся читателей в огромных окнах с чашками кофе (неужели, будут работать всю ночь?), кучка студентов в неформальных шляпах... раскуривающие кальян прямо на траве, и спортивные молодые люди в шортах для бега не по погоде, время от времени огибающие нас, одиноко-праздных - пожалуй, и все. Library, University of Tennessee
