by Megan Durham | Sep 6, 2011
I think I spend too much time thinking about language. I like thinking about how words fit together and how they evolve in usage and meaning. In fact one of the best things about my recent reading of literature from the 1920’s is seeing how words like...
by Megan Durham | Sep 6, 2011
My main computer is currently down for the count, leaving me with a tablet that is a tad hard to type and do work on. So today’s post is going to be a bit threadbare. However, I’ve been interested in radioactivity recently and have a couple of...
by Megan Durham | Sep 2, 2011
I love the Opinionator in general, but this article from yesterday is a little frightening. It’s a review of Last Call by Daniel Okrent, but it’s also a look at how modern politics mirror those at the time of Prohibition. But the film and book...
by Megan Durham | Sep 1, 2011
I believe that I’ve mentioned my love of my Kindle here before. It’s an amazing device that allows me to never, ever be without a book. (On a related note, I find that I also never have to talk to anyone on the bus if I don’t want to....
by Megan Durham | Aug 29, 2011
Too often science seems like a lofty ideal, a great and impossible muse that only those with years of education and impossibly high IQs (or at least a copious supply of white lab coats) can actually commune with. But then something like Galaxy Zoo comes along to...
by Megan Durham | Aug 27, 2011
The beginning of the movement is traced back to a young Andrew Jackson Davis who published a book called The Principles of Nature, but he didn’t claim authorship. No,...
by Megan Durham | Aug 24, 2011
I think that I’ve discovered something about myself. It’s probably not that earth-shattering of a realization, but whenever someone figures out something about how their mind works (especially if it’s not precisely in line with how they...
by Megan Durham | Aug 23, 2011
It’s strange to face the mental pictures that we make of our favorite authors. We each have certain expectations about the people who wrote the books we love: assumptions about how they lived their lives and the...
by Megan Durham | Aug 18, 2011
I seem to have a habit of writing things that I don’t really want to post up here on this blog. But I’m going to be featured on the BePreparedPeriod.com blog within the week with a story about, you guessed it!, periods. So… yeah. The blog...
by Megan Durham | Aug 16, 2011
Perhaps one of the universal constants of any young adult’s life is napping. Between parties, working to pay for school and pulling all-nighters, it’s no wonder that almost any walk through a college campus reveals students stretched out on the grass and...
by Megan Durham | Aug 10, 2011
What do you get when you take a sleepwalker, download the complete works of HP Lovecraft into her Kindle, then have her train for the Grand Canyon and hike until she falls asleep the second she gets home? Interesting dreams to say the least. I recently found that the...
by Megan Durham | Aug 9, 2011
We like to believe that there’s a clear line between “sane” and “insane,” that people who are one are clearly not the other. Part of the reason is the sheer social damage that a label like “crazy,” “schizophrenic,” or “mentally disturbed” can wreck on an...
by Megan Durham | Aug 5, 2011
So I haven’t updated! Actually, I thought that I had one update in my automatic updater, but apparently 8:00 came and went without that showing up on Wednesday… leading me to give you a rough post, now! So, I just finished reading Memories of the...
by Megan Durham | Aug 1, 2011
Today we descend down a different rabbit hole: that of modern paganism. Often derided and poked fun at, there’s actually something refreshing about a religion that embraces an anti-hierarchical format and a return to nature. A religion that seeks a simpler...
by Megan Durham | Jul 29, 2011
Because once I finish my July NaNoWriMo this is what I’ll be doing: Well, that and practice hikes. Anyone got any ice packs?
