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Jonathan Z. Smith, "The Necessary Lie: Duplicity in the Disciplines" (n.d.)
One of J.Z. Smith's articles on teaching religious studies, intended for graduate students just beginning to teach.
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http://teaching.uchicago.edu/handbook/tac12.html
That "do you have any Grey Poupon" joke is officially over
I know it's sick and wrong, but this news story really cracked me up
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http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9964543
David Brooks, "The Neural Buddhists" - New York Times
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/opinion/13brooks.html?ex=1368504000
Instinctual eye styles in stock herding dogs
A typology of instinctual eye styles: strong-eye, sticky-eye, medium-eye, roving-eye, and anti-eye. Explains how various dogs use eye contact and gaze styles to control herds. A totally r...
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http://members.cox.net/gsdvominsel/eye.htm
De La Soul, "Big Brother Beats," from Stakes Is High (Tommy Boy, 1996)
"Straight butter hits"
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http://sounds.infiniteregress.org/13%20Big%20Brother%20Beat.mp3
The "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks
Haha! This is awesome! Send her your photos of misused quotation marks and she will publish them! I love it.
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http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com
Frank Sinatra performing "My Kind of Town" live
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http://lushlifemusic.co.uk/arrangements/audio/my_kind_of_town.mp3
Transgendered Oregon man is pregnant (he says)
Thomas Beatie, who has undergone sex-change surgery and is legally male and legally married, has conceived a child via a home insemination from a sperm donor. He plans to carry the child ...
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http://www.advocate.com/issue_story.asp?id=52664
Jazz improvisation and the brain: new research studies spontaneous creativity and brain activity
A group of researchers at Johns Hopkins and NIH used fMRI equipment to study what goes on in the brains of musicians who are perfoming spontaneous musical improvisation. The layman's summ...
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http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2008/02_26_08.html
Illustrations of the "Harrowing of Hell"
Happy Good Friday, everybody. Here are a few interesting historical images of the "harrowing of Hell" tradition drawn from various Christian iconographic sources.
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http://www.patzinakia.ro/libri/Harrowing%20of%20Hell/illustrations.html
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