Category: real life
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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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The Dead Squirrel Conundrum
The following exchange has recently been unearthed from the online archives of the University of Western Ontario’s school newspaper, The Gazette. It occurred in October of 1998, when the instigator of the discussion was just a budding first-year undergraduate student. Get that dead thing outta here Re: Dead things on campus To the Editor: A…
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The Doggone Song is Mine
Sometimes I get a strange feeling when I hear Michael Jackson songs on the radio or TV. I don’t mean the big ones – Billie Jean or Bad or Heal the World – but the lesser-known songs that didn’t get as much play – Dirty Diana, or Human Nature, or Give In To Me. I…
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