Vocab rehab

Check out Vocab Rehab for some new and interesting ways to use some of those old words you learned long ago for the SATs/GREs/MCATs.

casuistry (n.)
the resolution of particular moral dilemmas, especially those arising from conflicting general moral rules, by the careful distinction of the cases to which these rules apply

In a sentence: When Joanne went to church, she refused to be tricked by what appeared to be a minister’s deft use of casuistry to “trick” his parishioners; Joanne soon went straight to hell.

In a different sentence: Sitting in the pew, Jacob began to wonder if everything he was hearing was the “Truth,” or simply the casuistries of a very clever rabbi; he quickly dismissed the thought, and was therefore bound for eternal joy.

Fact: Ivan Solotaroff’s book The Last Face You’ll Ever See provides readers a unique perspective on the casuistry employed by two former Mississippi executioners.

Build your nerd-o-science family tree

Here's a great place to realize just where you fall in the great neuroscience family tree. You can add yourself, then add your "parents" aka advisors/bosses, your "children" aka underlings, and your "collaborators" aka those people who might publish before you. Good times.

Paint Your Own Pollack

How to fulfill that creative void since your workplace banned fingerpaints. Your own masterpiece is only a click away.

Cow-cow-cow-cow-cow-uh cow-uh

We have a rule that we will no longer pick up animals from parking lots or on the side of the road (those of you who have met our animals can understand the need to implement this rule). But this weekend we found a juvenile pied-billed grebe, sans wing, flopping about our street and we couldn’t just leave him there. Thankfully we found a wildlife rescue organization to take him. Project Wildlife is run completely by volunteers, and even though they are currently feeding 200+ orphaned baby birds by hand every 35-45 minutes 24 hrs a day they still took in our little grebe and are nursing him back to health. Although, I imagine life for a one-winged migratory bird will be kinda tough.

JB was in San Diego this weekend so we hung out at the beach in PB, played disc golf in Balboa Park, and saw a sweet band at the Alibi. Tonight is $1 fish tacos at Terra (yum yum) and tomorrow night we have tickets to see Death Cab & Spoon.

For those of you who are really really bored at work

You can ready the full, unabridge text of Crime and Punishment online! What will the internet think of next.

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Thanks Craigslist for another great (free) find! Stay tuned for after pictures.