New Jersey provided an incentive to local school boards to move their elections to the general. The carrot was that boards could raise the school tax by up to 2% without a budget referendum.
New data on PhD student mental health: "By the 5th year of studies, the likelihood that PhD candidates needed mental-health medications had increased by 40%, compared with the year before study" This is why, when giving advice to students, I always mention self care www.nature.com/articles/d41...
PhD students in Sweden accessed mental-health services at increasing rates as their studies went on.
Five minutes after the students begin
Stealing that joke for two months from now
I stopped saying “dummy variable” and use “placeholder variable” instead. It’s more descriptive anyway
Would it help if I double dog dared you?
Of course you’re allowed. But as with any joke, you have to consider how it will be received by those not in on it, and whether that matters.
The 2004 ALCS was the longest 10 days I ever experienced as a sports fan. When the bottom of the ninth of game 7 arrived, I switched from the TV to the radio in the kitchen. In the dark I wept tears of joy with Joe C
Second best: My first Father’s Day, 2003. What I wanted was an afternoon alone. I went to Kelly’s Roast Beef and watched Dodgeball in the theater. “Deus ex machina” on the chest killed me.
Thanksgiving 1987 we spent with my cool aunt and uncle and cousins. My aunt’s brother worked in show business and took us all to the movies. He said he heard this one was supposed to be really funny. It was The Princess Bride. Our party of 10 adored it.