Around Martin Luther King, Jr. day we tend to get a spate of articles from conservatives trying to
claim Dr. King as their own. And there’s also a lot of at-best misguided talk about color blindness. “I don’t even see color, I’m color-blind.” “It doesn’t matter to me whether you are white or black.” And [...] Read more »

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If you are pregnant, or know of someone who is pregnant, or know someone who might become pregnant, you should go read Bean’s post on
caffeine intake and pregnancy at Lawyers, Guns and Money. No, not to warn you off of coffee. But because Bean has yet another example of how pregnant women are expected [...] Read more »

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Researchers in Franklin and Marshall College have a paper in Science (
Natural Streams and the Legacy of Water-Powered Mills, abstract only unless you’re a AAAS member) suggesting that the current model of water flow over land mass — at least certain kinds of land mass — is fundamentally flawed thanks to a primary [...] Read more »

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We’re coming up on six years of Thudfactor (official birthday:
February 6, 2002), a project I started with the intention of getting in the habit of writing frequently. I’ve achieved that goal and then some, but here’s the thing: I wanted to write fiction. Despite occasionally toying with graduate degrees in political science and history, [...] Read more »

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This morning I finished Half Life 2 making it — as near as I can tell — the only first-person shooter I’ve ever played through to completion. I’ve been playing them since my college buddies hooked up Doom on the local network. But I’m also terrible at them, and that’s one reason I never [...] Read more »

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