 | Last login: 7 weeks agoEph Zero is a 40 year old woman in an open marriage from Portland, Oregon, USA. B.A. in linguistics and German language; musician; actor; nerd. Currently taking a year off to shop for grad schools...and just kinda goof off. |
 Share This- A Low Impact Woodland Home
 Nov 28, 2008 1:27am  (1350 reviews) environment, transportation http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm- I'd love to live in a house like this -- it's so beautiful. But when I see things like this, I always wonder if you can build it in a place where you're not forced to use a car to get around. Where's the bus stop?
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- City of Work
- Nov 10, 2008 10:08pm
 (1 review) satire, art, charts, office, dystopia http://cityofwork.com/ - Dystopia of office drones.
- Nov 2, 2008 1:42am
- Hmmm, maybe I'll try hanging out here again a bit.
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- WWW.LITEPOST.COM
- May 29, 2008 12:19am (2 reviews) internet-tools http://www.litepost.com/
- What happened to Litepost? The site was fossilized and now the domain name has expired. :'(
Litepost looked so promising!
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- Irregular Webcomic! #1769
- Dec 2, 2007 4:20pm (3 reviews) comics, humor, grammar, language, linguistics http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1769.ht...
- I'm in favor of a gender-neutral third-person pronoun -- even for supernatural entities. We might as well use the one we already have.
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- Babies Judge Character Well | LiveScience
- Nov 21, 2007 3:03pm (1 review) babies, sociology, morals, cognition http://www.livescience.com/health/071121...
- From the page: "Even at just a few months old, babies can size up others and decide whom they'd rather hang out with, a new study finds.
Deciding whom to spend time with is an important ability for humans and other social animals because we must cooperate with each other, said study leader Kiley Hamlin of Yale University, and knowing who's likely to cooperate and who isn't can be valuable information when choosing associates."
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- Emotions do not affect cancer survival: study| Health| Reuters
- Oct 22, 2007 9:59am (2 reviews) cancer, emotion, attitude http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNew...
- If a positive attitude really helped, no one would die of cancer. Since I'm a bit of a cynic, I think this requirement for sick people to be brave and upbeat is more for the benefit of those around them who can't handle it.
From the page: "The analysis showed that emotional status was not associated with survival rate. A person's emotions were not associated with survival even after taking into account other factors, such as gender, tumor site or disease stage, Coyne and colleagues report in the journal Cancer."
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- Using religion to avoid vaccination, revisited : Respectful Insolence
- Oct 18, 2007 10:13am (1 review) health, religion, vaccination http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2007/1...
- From the page: "It would be one thing if these parents lived in isolated communities, where they could exist without exposing others to the dangers due to their foolish choice not to vaccinate, but such is not the case. The children of these parents are going to schools with your children, and their children can and do serve as a nidus for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease. This is because no vaccine is 100%, and those who fail to develop immunity are protected by "herd immunity," the indirect protection of susceptible members of the population by the presence of a high percentage of immune individuals. "
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- Greta Christinas Blog: Atheists and Anger
- Oct 16, 2007 6:22pm (143 reviews) atheist http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_...
- From the page: "I think we need to have some goddamn perspective about this anger business. I mean, I look at organized Christianity in this country -- not just the religious right, but some more "moderate" churches as well -- interfering with AIDS prevention efforts, trying to get their theology into the public schools, actively trying to prevent me and Ingrid from getting legally married, and pulling all the other shit I talk about in this piece.
And I look at atheists sometimes being mean-spirited and snarky in blogs and books and magazines.
And I think, Can we please have some goddamn perspective? "
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- Thinking about God makes you behave virtuously -- depending on what you...
- Oct 16, 2007 1:06pm (1 review) atheist, religion, research, atheism, morality http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2...
- From the page: "Few experimental studies have been conducted on the effect of religion, but Azim Shariff and Ara Norenzayan believe they have come up with a paradigm that does demonstrate some effects of religion on behavior. Their study combines two well-researched phenomena: the dictator game and the scrambled-sentence paradigm."
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