Time to lighten the mood around here. So how many of these are you doing wrong?
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Assisted suicide is not the happiest topic in the world, so I think it's time to lighten the mood around here. And what better way to do that than with some cute animal pictures?
Let's start with Emily keeping me company while I am at the computer:
I was making revisions to my paper about…
That last post is really kind of a downer topic for a Saturday morning, especially after a fun Friday. Sorry about that. Here's a picture of pretty flowers to lighten the mood:
These are on some tall bushes outside our back door, growing around the base of some pine trees that look like fifty-foot…
Jen Ouellette takes lethal aim at the myth of the sexless girl-geek in this post, which made me want to pump my fist and cheer and go out dancing in a sexy dress and look in a microscope and write a blog post all at the same time:
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Having been depressing and/or political for the last few posts, I feel like I ought to do something to lighten the mood. So here are some pop songs (extended beyond the canonical ten because it's the last day of classes. Woo-hoo!):
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia"Charlie Danliels Band
"Since You'…
Well, as a singer at least I've learned to breathe with my diaphragm. That makes one.
I have totally been neglecting my horny layer. I'll try to do better.
Huh. I thought my coding while reclining actually contributed to my back problems, which have actually decreased over time.
I totally recommend napping. The first cigarette after waking is the best, and there's no good reason to have it only once a day.
I heard the sleep thing a while ago on NPR and it blew my mind a little, although I love being up at the odd hours of the night. They said people would even visit with neighbors at that time of night. I pondered the idea of a footstool in the bathroom, but it would be hard to explain to guests.
Wow. I guess I do everything wrong. ;)
I loved Cracked!
Cracked sometimes bends the facts in favor of maximizing the funny, but on the whole, they're a heck of a lot better at getting things right than even much of the mainstream not-ostensibly-humor-focused media. (Two words: science journalism.) The writers seem genuinely concerned about informing us, and will often reject easy jokes for the sake of being compassionate and honest.
(If course, the easy jokes they avoid are often cliched anyway, so that's probably the real reason for this.) Basically, they're like a cool older brother looking out for you. Come to think of it, the whole site is a subversion of the cynicism we've come to expect from Internet humor. I reccomend 7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable, and remember this line from it:
The one about showers is basically right. Our hygeine rituals weren't exactly the result of scientific study; they're more about the ritual, and keeping up appearences. And in the case of showering, Americans can get ridiculously hung up on it being daily. Even the writer of the article takes for granted that if you skip one shower, people around you will be able to smell it. That's only true if you have a job that involves cleaning things, or sweating a lot.
The one about birth is interesting, but we can't forget that whatever is being done "wrong", rates of death by childbirth are way down today compared to the rest of human history. (I don't mean to make a correlation-causation fallacy, just to celebrate the progress of science. Ultimately, I imagine that squatting-birth combined with current practices would be best.)
On sitting:
That's one of the best trains of terrible logic I've ever seen.
Bad Jim @ 3:
I wouldn't be surprised if the study didn't bother to have the subjects do "desk work" (or anything in particular) while reclining, so that's a key lack of symmetry right there. It maybe should have occurred to the writer of the MSNBC report on the study.
The first thing you're doing wrong is looking to Cracked! for health advice.