Month: July 2009
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Joel Plaskett at Aeolian Hall, July 16th
Joel Plaskett played last night at Aeolian Hall. It was a fantastic show; the dude is ridiculously talented. For the majority of the concert, he played completely solo, just him singing and one of three different guitars. Aeolian Hall is tiny, so everyone at the sold-out show got good seats. It felt very intimate, with…
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Overheard
As I write this, I’m in a psychology lab running participants for an experiment in my PhD dissertation. But you know, sometimes, it’s the findings that you stumble across while doing research that are just as interesting as the results you’re actively seeking out. For example, when first setting up the study, I had to…
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Children of the Corn
There’s a commercial for bottled water on TV right now that shows kids frolicking in a swimming pool, and a voiceover goes something like: “your children don’t swim in high fructose corn syrup.” The conclusion you’re supposed to draw, I guess, is that your kids shouldn’t eat foods with high fructose corn syrup, and should…
