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Month: November 2003
What Gender is Your Writing?
Okay, so men and women are different. We all know this. Once in a while political issues make us say things like, “We’re really not that different!”, but then scientists come in and pretty succintly inform us that we are different. Our brains are somewhat different, our bodies take slightly different shapes, our drives in many respects are different. And, apparently, this affects how we write. A bit of software out there on the net, called the Gender Genie, can analyse a text and with a pretty impressive degree of accuracy tell you whether the author is male or female. …
Friday Five: Food and Place
This week’s Friday Five question comes to us courtesy of Adrienne Martini of martinimade. Lately, I’ve been thinking about food. It’s something I think about a lot, granted, but this is more about food and place. For me, these connections are intense and evocative. The question: if you could travel back to any place you’ve lived (or, in a pinch, visited) and have just one meal in each location that reminded you of the time you spent there, what would your top five stops and dishes be? Wow, for me it’s become that way as well. For a long time …
Global Icing?
This is kind of scary: Bill McGuire of the Guardian Unlimited reports that global warming could in fact trigger a new ice age. Or, rather, the resumption of the ice age that never really ended, for that ice age never actually let up. We’re in a warm period, an interglacial period, actually. And it might be we could trigger the resumption of an ice age. Something to think about. The fact that we don’t know, but we’re affecting it, is scary. Because the way we affect things seems to accelerate everything. Anyway, thanks to Rob from about pip for sharing …
sarah hatter and change
Over on sarah hatter dot com, Sarah has something interesting to say about desperation and whether people really do change in life: The more desperate the circumstance, the more urgency a person has to find something to count on, to hold true to. When everything else has failed a person, that is when they start to really believe. How many near death experiences have scared a person out of a life of self-centeredness and deceit? How many death beds have heard confessions of sin and self? How many epic tragedies does it take for a person to begin all over …