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  • Remember Remember the Fifth of November

    After being reminded by Shora and I Should Be Writing that this month is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I’ve gone and signed up to participate. That means I’m supposed to write a 50 000 word novel by the end of the month. You can keep track of my progress, and everyone else’s, at the…

  • Adventures in Caffeine

    Have you heard of Coca Cola Blak? Coke advertises it as “Coke effervescence with coffee essence.” I didn’t know what the hell effervescence meant, so I looked it up. It’s another word for fizzy. Thus, Blak is coffee dumped in fizzy Coke. The other day, I went to buy a bottle of Diet Coke at…

  • Video Games Make You Smart

    I’ll stick with posting about psychology, since school/work is all I’ve been doing lately. I came across an article (Teasdale & Owen, 2000) which looked at trends in intelligence scores over the last few decades. As you may know, intelligence has been steadily going up over time. This study looked at a Danish population, to…