General Education

Lose weight and learn DNA structures at the same time - sounds good to me. In yet another example of (sort-of) serious games, Dance Dance Revolution stepping game (or more likely the open source StepMania) has been adapted to use DNA base symbols as direction pads in a game, where correct dance sequence will cause a call-out for the matching DNA structure. If played enough, the correct sequences might actually be remembered on a motor, rather than intellectual level.

Both my wife and I borrow a lot of books from the library (great NYPL), but even with the generous renewal policies, sometimes the books get lost between two cards and we get overdue fines. So, I was very glad to find a link to [Both my wife and I borrow a lot of books from the library (great NYPL), but even with the generous renewal policies, sometimes the books get lost between two cards and we get overdue fines.

I have always wanted to read through the classics of the Western literature. But the life is too short and too busy to try slogging through the volumnous writings. Now, the “Squashed Philosophers” website (via StingyScholar) offers condenced versions of materials where only the important points are kept - in the original language - and the long rambles are excised. And for those who don’t like reading from the screen, they have a printed version.

I blog. Obviously! But I felt that an influential blogger like Hugh Hewitt might give a good overview and write a book worth reading. Boy, was I mistaken. This book is squarely targeted at non-technical, right-wing, religious Americans who don’t mind being sneered at. Anybody else should try to avoid it. For that Anybody else group, here is couple of reasons from the book itself (emphasis mine). An audience test that really should have been on the book’s jacket and not on the page 88 of the book: