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6 O'Clock BS: Sing it, Sir Terry.
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Do not fear the science!
Like many people, my gateway drug introduction to skepticism as a vibrant, evolving community was The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe. If you listen to podcasts and like science and skepticism with occasional side of snark, you absolutely MUST give SGU a try.
This was the end-of-show quote from episode #303 (5/4/11), and it’s stuck with me for over a week now. I really enjoy it as a persuasive statement about the use and beauty of science.
“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.”
-Robert Saplosky
Words of Wisdom
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Thomas H. Palmer, Teacher’s Manual – 1840
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Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.
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If at first you don’t succeed, reassess the value of accomplishing what you originally intended.
Tweeted by @abrahampiper this morning
You can have a career, as long as you look good doing it.
Cross-Country Connections is going to be delayed by 24 hours due to extreme slackerdom and holiday-time distractions. Until its arrival, I offer you a quote from Leslie M. McIntyre:
“Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-groomed and unaggressive.”
Does anybody know anything about Leslie M. McIntyre? Google is failing me in my brief search; all I can find for “Leslie M. McIntyre” are references to the above quote, or possibly unrelated finds about random people named Leslie M. McIntyre who may have nothing to do with the quote.
In my search I did find this related quote from Gloria Steinem. Not to worry, dear readers – Google totally knows who Gloria Steinem is.
“I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.”
And with that, back to the end-of-year reports and experiments!