more reasons to go to the gym

or run around Lake Union(I live close to where their run started, near the Hooters), like I kinda did yesterday…
lobes of steel

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everyone wants to know why modern science

took off in Europe and not any of the other places it could have at the time. Before, they had different explanations, but recently I’ve been hearing a lot of arguments pointing to one answer — Europe just got lucky. Maybe this has to do with the relatively recent discovery in cognitive science that got [...]

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other random map

just saw in blog I’ve seen it many times before. I’m not sure why people find it so fascinating, as it’s a pretty pointless map (like it hardly shows anything useful or interesting that you don’t know already), but it’s still pretty fascinating to me…I think the thing is that I imagine how each of [...]

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slate – human nature column

just too funny
The U.S. is losing ground to other countries in height and longevity. 1) In 20 years, we’ve fallen from 11th to 42nd in longevity. We trail most European countries, Japan, Guam, and Jordan. 2) We used to be the world’s tallest people but now rank rank rank ninth and 15th in male and [...]

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most common names

of people who got into college in taiwan just now….
ok I think the fact that the names are most common probably means much more than whatever correlation there may be between names and college. (random side note: I’m still very impressed myself whenever I put my last name [english] into google. of course I don’t [...]

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this very much look like the general kind of food I got in Kentucky

no, I don’t like Kentucky food very much It’s kinda like KFC food in general (fried chicken, cole slaw, etc). Well KFC isn’t that bad, it’s just very, very friend (may be good) and very, very greasy (bad).

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this person went to troy apparently

High school graduate pretends to be a Stanford student, even living in the dorms, buying textbooks and ‘studying’ for exams

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U.C.Berkeley CARS

two months ago I got a CARS bill for $20. Ok, I thought, I’ll pay it and it’ll be gone and I’ll never have to pay UCBerkeley again. Last month I got another CARS bill for $20. I was kinda wondering why I got another $20 charge from Berkeley, but I paid it again anyway, [...]

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