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Read more: Interviews, Interviews
Interviews, Interviews
2 comments on Interviews, InterviewsI’ve been getting more job interviews lately. Researching the companies I’m interviewing at and other interview prep is taking a fair amount of time. One place I interviewed at Monday has called to arrange a second round next week, which is a hopeful sign. I am still not getting full lung function, but albuterol, Mucinex, and the humidifier are helping. Doing an aerobics tape in the…
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Read more: Knitting, Crochet, and Related Acts of Yarn
Knitting, Crochet, and Related Acts of Yarn
I know people who knit or crochet habitually. As in, all the time. As in, they have trouble figuring out what to do with all their creations. I’m not one of them. I do know how to knit, mind. Ditto crochet. I think both are useful skills. But what drives me to acts of yarn isn’t a love of exotic fibers (I’ve gotten hives from wool) or…
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Read more: Things to Read
Things to Read
This is kind of a mishmash ;) If you’ve seen comments about “dickwolves” and PAX and wondered what it was about, JetWolf has a nice summary. Author Seanan McGuire addressed why fixing the US healthcare system is so terribly, terribly important this week. Seanan has discussed why she needs health insurance here and here. Seanan’s new CD, Wicked Girls, is available for ordering at CDBaby. Alternet has a well-done…
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Read more: On Decoupling Exercise and Weight Loss
On Decoupling Exercise and Weight Loss
From obesity researcher Travis Saunders comes this excellent post on how Canadian public health efforts to increase activity work against their own aims by tying exercise with weight loss: [T]he average weight loss in response to a moderate increase in physical activity levels is very modest, and it’s likely that many people would see no weight reduction of any kind. Even if it’s in the range of 5%…
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Read more: Culture Affects Science Reporting
Culture Affects Science Reporting
The bare facts in this piece on breakfast size are simple: German researchers studied the food intake of 280 obese adults and 100 of normal weight. The subjects kept records of everything they ate over two weeks, and were carefully instructed about the importance of writing down what they ate as soon as they ate it. For both groups, a large breakfast simply added to the number…
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Read more: Disease Doesn’t Mean You’re A Bad Person
Disease Doesn’t Mean You’re A Bad Person
Very early in my career, I participated in a study of young women who were hospitalized and awaiting the results of biopsies to determine if they had cervical cancer. While I was interviewing one of my patients, the biopsy results of the woman in the next bed came back to her — negative. The fortunate woman’s father, who was there with her, said in relief: “We’re good…
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Read more: Microagressions
Microagressions
Microagressions is a site about venting those little racist/sexist/classist dings that hit throughout the day. Some examples: “Excuse me, do you speak English?” Man at the bus stop. I am an Asian American woman. I was reading Jane Austen. In English. “Wow, from talking to you on the phone, I’d never know that you were a fat girl. You don’t sound fat at all.” My friend’s grandmother,…
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Read more: You Know You Have Dust/Pollen/etc Allergies When…
You Know You Have Dust/Pollen/etc Allergies When…
…you feel like you might be getting a cold (congestion, headachy, coughing, tired). Do you drink tea and put your feet up? No, you spend Sunday dusting and vacuuming the bedroom, changing the sheets and mattress cover, running the pillows and comforter through the hottest dryer setting to kill dust mites, washing your CPAP mask and hose, swapping in a clean CPAP filter, and otherwise doing your…
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Read more: Overanalyzing, The Magazine
Overanalyzing, The Magazine
Anyone know who created this parody? It’s so perfect – “The Shame and Guilt” issue indeed: A friend linked to the image; it and a writeup of “how insane and sexist” women’s magazines tend to be is here. Do you read women’s magazines regularly? UPDATE: Per The Atlantic this was created by Cracked.com.
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