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Mom to three sets of twins (four kitties); political science professor at CU, Boulder. Ask me about TILES, my teaching technique, and why Dobbs is worse than we think. Trans / Black / immigrant lives matter.
Kevin Kruse v. AI in a snark-off! I would pay to see the smackdown.
Agreed on OBAA. But so excited about Project Hail Mary that I’m wearing the T-shirt. I loved the novel. My sweetie says it’s not cool to wear the T-shirt to the concert. But I’ve never been cool so why start now? See Rocky above the E? Amaze! IYKYK.
Cayleb Stives and I conducted a study comparing a military police vehicle to an SUV in a news story. The manipulation check failed. Our diagnosis is that racists OVERWHELMINGLY did not remember seeing a military vehicle, if they indeed saw one. Look at the racists giving us the finger.
John Platt wrote an essay, "Strong Inference," in which he explains why some fields progress much more quickly than others (molecular biology as the model). The idea is to keep a notebook, write multiple competing hypotheses daily, and run crucial experiments to maximize efficiency.
Here are two innocent-looking kitties. The one on the left destroyed an entire paper towel roll yesterday. The one on the right keeps coming up with ingenious ways to escape through the front door.
Here is the partisan breakdown, excluding Independents.
Here is support for court-curbing overall. Question wording: "Congress should take action to prevent the Supreme Court from making decisions like this," after hearing a case about veil bans (that they were likely to disagree with). (Most Americans disagree with Muslim veil bans).
In case you have people in your timeline posting the number of vaccines we take and it's "effect" on autism, I made a response, using real data.
It is times like these that I am reminded that the Nazis modeled the Holocaust on the U.S. system. Below is from Chapter 6 of Isabel Wilkerson's Caste.
It is a very good review. Congratulations! This will be the next book I require for my Law and Society course.
And here is the final pic. So yummy! Par broiling because ADHD.
Pic of squash soup before I made it ugly with the gray beluga lentils. If I were trying to be fancy, I would probably serve this with the beluga separately placed carefully in the middle of the soup. But I don't have time for beauty.
Then, I cooked 1 cup (which was prob too much) beluga lentils in no salt, but smoked paprika, a cup of coconut powder (Anthony's).
Ok- I was working on emulating a butternut squash soup with beluga lentils I had at a San Diego restaurant. But I made it slightly fattier, less brothy, more coconutty, and with kale.