Monthly Archives: October 2008

Word of the Week (Oct 12, 2008)

12 Oct 2008 – 21:54

The stock market continued to take a hit this week. People are getting nervous. Obama & McCain had their 2nd presidential debate. Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending on October 12, 2008: allegation amalgamated amazing anoesis anxious arduous artistic assuage attitude awesome belligerent bird booyah cataclysmic cellulose chaotic chimney cold [...]

By brynn | Posted in word of the week | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

links on ma.gnolia

12 Oct 2008 – 0:02

In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading… The Choice: Comment: The New Yorker This an well-written article by the editors of the New Yorker in full support of Barack Obama for Presidency! View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

By brynn | Posted in bookmarks | Comments (0)

The Biology of Fear

11 Oct 2008 – 10:20

A paper by Oxley et al. in Science (September 2008, 321(5896), pp. 1667-1670) explores how people’s inherent tolerance for sudden noises and threatening visual images relates to their political attitudes. They found that people with lower sensitivities to such disruptions (or higher tolerances) were more likely to support foreign aid, liberal immigration policies, pacifism, and [...]

By brynn | Posted in science | Tagged | Comments (0)

The Sidewalk to Nowhere

9 Oct 2008 – 20:43

This is unbelievable. I am speechless. Who are these people? I cannot relate to a single one of them! Are these the Christians with upstanding moral values that I’ve heard our great country is based on? Or are they purely and truly ignorant? Or just plain stupid? I haven’t been this worked up in a [...]

By brynn | Posted in politics | Tagged , , , , | Comments (6)

Word of the Week (Oct 5, 2008)

5 Oct 2008 – 10:36

I’m starting a new game (let’s see if I can keep this up)! Every week I will use Mechanical Turk to ask 100 people for their “word of the week”—whatever seems to capture their experiences for the week—and then create a tag cloud. It would be interesting if themes emerged from week to week that [...]

By brynn | Posted in word of the week | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)