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    What is mind-blanking, really? I'm re-reading Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past (the...

    What is mind-blanking, really? I'm re-reading Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past (the Moncrieff translation), so mind wandering and hypnogogia have been front and centre in my musings lately (well, since mid-January, when I started it again). The Kindle tells me I am 28% of the way...
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    New Dinosaur Remains Found in the Canadian Rockies!

    New Dinosaur Remains Found in the Canadian Rockies!
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    The Origin of Feathers I had my first robin sighting of this spring on our morning walk today...

    The Origin of Feathers I had my first robin sighting of this spring on our morning walk today. The birdsong is back in the forest, and so are the bumblebees so busy pollinating the daffodils. Two researchers at the University of Geneva's Laboratory of Artificial and Natural Evolution (LANE)...
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    A very bright orange, tailored trench coat that I saw in a magazine ad and fell in love with in...

    A very bright orange, tailored trench coat that I saw in a magazine ad and fell in love with in 2011 or 2012. It was my favourite item of clothing for many years. Made it easy for blind dates to identify me. Just finished reading Nobel-prize winner Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow...
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    Why BMI is Misleading: The Truth About Weight, Obesity, and Fitness

    Are any of the findings discussed in this literature review actually new? It seems to me that I have been reading this same critique of BMI with little new "bite" to it since the 1990s. I was definitely taught, in physical education classes with a curriculum set by the government, that BMI was...
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    Do you make any meals on-the-regular with it? I worked in the kitchen (as a dishwasher) at an...

    Do you make any meals on-the-regular with it? I worked in the kitchen (as a dishwasher) at an upscale Japanese restaurant for eighteen months, and just about the only dish that I took away from that experience that included seaweed was the okonomiyaki that was regularly served as staff meal...
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    I immediately wondered how much traction such initiatives would get among populations that...

    I immediately wondered how much traction such initiatives would get among populations that predominantly eat meat raised as livestock, but some quick research indicates that seaweed is "taking off" in North America. See, for example, this 2023 article in The Globe and Mail: Why seaweed is making...
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    E-Waste Disposal Behavior: A Mediator for Sustainable Consumption

    "The results would have been different if the study focused on behavior of urban female consumers. In that case, monetary return expectations and volume accumulation would have been the most crucial factors influencing behavior." I was surprised to not see this finding discussed in later...
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    Cultural Frontiers in Research on Non-Human Primates

    This review article pairs well with the recent (17 December 2024) PBS Eon's episode about the recent research about Neanderthal hunting strategies: When Neanderthals Became Apex Predators
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    Teaching as Tai Chi

    I think what I like best about incorporating yoga and tai chi principles consciously into tertiary pedagogy is that is helps to address the very colonial, very parochial heritages of so many institutions that were founded primarily as divinity schools. We must take cultural diversity seriously...
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    But without the multiple MB animated gif of London bridge taking forever to load, how will I...

    But without the multiple MB animated gif of London bridge taking forever to load, how will I judge my connection speed?
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    Fosterage has long been an interest of mine -- in medieval Europe, it was a common practice that...

    Fosterage has long been an interest of mine -- in medieval Europe, it was a common practice that gave a child a larger network of support should something happen to their biological parents. This is a lovely project by Dr. Rhodes that examines how foster mothers cared for their wards -- and how...
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    No uniform, no entry

    I recently copy edited and proofread a doctoral dissertation about schooling for the Karamojong, an indigenous, agro-pastoral ethnic group of almost a half million who live in northeast Uganda. I read through many interview transcripts, and their teachers and the administrators of their...
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    What teaching strategy encourages critical thinking and problem solving?

    There is an excellent article on this very topic by Jean-Olivier Richard in the September AAPJ: https://atomicacademia.com/articles/teaching-as-tai-chi.131/
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    Impact of social media on Mental Health

    I cannot agree, especially after having read Osakada et al. (2024). What is your evidence to support this claim that misuse of social media that results in a disconnect with reality is a character flaw (i.e., lack of "wisdom") and not a mental health condition?
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