Book Review: The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1), by Phillip Pullman

The Golden Compass is actually called Northern Lights in every place except North America. I guess the publishers thought that kids would get confused, because they would not know what lights could possibly be doing in the north. Never mind that the book never refers to the titular object as a compass; that’s not [...]

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Amazing Trick

Just watch this. It’ll change your life ‘n shit.

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A Diatribe on the Nature of Intellect, and A Method With Which One Can Answer the Query, “Do Lycanthropes Possess Testes?”

Lately, most of my time is taken up reading for comprehensive exams. One of the topics I’m studying is intelligence. An interesting finding in this field is that raw IQ scores have been increasing over the last few decades; this is known as the “Flynn effect”, named after its main discoverer. There [...]

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Read This or Else

So I finished my last and only exam today.
The following occured to me: In grad school, it’s not really writing exams that matters, but the threat of writing exams.
See, marks don’t really matter. In a grad course, everyone is going to get a good mark no matter how [...]

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